L.A. Confidential movie

A shooting at an all night diner is investigated by three LA policemen in their own unique ways.

L.A. Confidential is a 1990 crime fiction novel by James Ellroy. It is the third of Ellroys L.A. Quartet series.

Plot The story is about Los Angeles policemen in 1953 who are caught up in a mixture of lies, sex, corruption, and murder following a mass murder at the Nite Owl coffee shop. The story eventually encompasses organized crime, political corruption, heroin, pornography, prostitution, tabloid journalism, plastic surgery, and Hollywood. The novels title refers to the infamous 1950s scandal magazine Confidential, which becomes Hush-Hush magazine in the book.Jack Vincennes is a slick and likable Hollywood cop who moonlights as the technical advisor for Badge of Honor, a popular Dragnet-like television show. Vincennes is connected with Hush-Hush: He receives hefty payoffs for making orchestrated celebrity arrests, often involving narcotics, that will attract even more readers to the magazine?and more fame to himself.Edmund Exley, the son of a legendary LAPD cop, is a brilliant detective determined to outdo his father. His intelligence, his education, his glasses, his insistence on following regulations, and his cold demeanor all contribute to Eds social isolation from other officers. He increases the resentment against him by testifying against cops in a police brutality case (based on the Bloody Christmas incident) early in the novel.Wendell "Bud" White, the most feared man in the LAPD, is a six-foot tall muscleman.

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L.A. Confidential Cast

• Danny DeVito
• David Strathairn
• Elisabeth Granli
• Graham Beckel
• Guy Pearce
• James Cromwell
• Kim Basinger
• Matt McCoy
• Paolo Seganti
• Paul Guilfoyle
• Ron Rifkin
• Russell Crowe
• Sandra Taylor
• Steve Rankin