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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, respectively. Produced by Chartoff-Winkler Productions, it is adapted from the novel True Confessions by John Gregory Dunne, loosely based on the 1947 Black Dahlia murder case. 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, Reverend Desmond Spellacy is a young Roman Catholic monsignor in the Los Angeles Archdiocese. His older brother Tom is a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department.
More details
| author | Joan Didion John Gregory Dunne |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Los Angeles |
| director | Ulu Grosbard |
| editor | Lynzee Klingman |
| genre | crime drama |
| keywords | apparent suicide bagman bury car accident catholic priest chinese food church city council dark side dig exile film homicide detective kill los angeles archdiocese los angeles police department medical examiner monsignor murder nothing older brother pass police department pornographic film prostitution ring question roman catholic roman catholic archdiocese of los angeles run sexual relationship shout stag film turn young woman |
| musicBy | Georges Delerue |
| producer | Irwin Winkler Robert Chartoff |
| productionCompany | Chartoff-Winkler Productions |
| publisher | United Artists |
| theme | neo-noir pornographic |