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True Confessions
True Confessions is a 1981 American neo-noir crime drama film directed by Ulu Grosbard and starring Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall as the brothers Spellacy, a priest and police detective. Produced by Chartoff-Winkler Productions, it is adapted from the novel of the same name by John Gregory Dunne, loosely based on the Black Dahlia murder case of 1947. Dunne wrote the screenplay with his wife, novelist Joan Didion. The film was released on September 25, 1981, receiving generally positive reviews from critics.
Plot
In 1948, Rev. Desmond Spellacy is a young and ambitious Roman Catholic monsignor in the Los Angeles archdiocese. His older brother Tom is a hard-working homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. They are fond of each other, but spend little time together.
More details
| author | Joan Didion John Gregory Dunne |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Los Angeles |
| director | Ulu Grosbard |
| editor | Lynzee Klingman |
| genre | crime drama |
| keywords | apparent suicide bagman car accident catholic priest chinese food church city council dark side dig exile film homicide detective kill los angeles police department medical examiner monsignor murder nothing older brother pass police department prostitution ring question roman catholic run sexual relationship stag film turn young woman |
| musicBy | Georges Delerue |
| producer | Irwin Winkler Robert Chartoff |
| publisher | United Artists |
| theme | neo-noir |