Geek Syndicate
A private eye is hired by a
beautiful woman to dig up
the dirt on a husband, except the job is a fake and
the husband is dead. The
detective falls in love with
the widow but gets dragged
into the political underworld. This features manipulation and double crossing, murder, household
utilities, rain, a doomed
romance, one of the most
famous reveals in movie
history and a particularly
untrustworthy dame.
• LA Confidential, 1997 starring: Kevin Spacey, Russell
Crowe and Guy Pearce, Dir:
Curtis Hanson 138 mins.
Three contrasting cops
(the straight, the corrupt
and the brutal) investigate
a series of murders connected to women who look
like Hollywood actresses.
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