{"id":1121,"date":"2004-05-15T23:45:26","date_gmt":"2004-05-15T23:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1121.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:17","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:17","slug":"true-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2004\/05\/15\/true-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>True Crime<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the sudden death of a colleague, grizzled reporter Steve Everett (Clint Eastwood) finds himself having to do a story on a death-row convicted murderer Frank Beachum (Isaiah Washington) before he is executed at midnight.  His nose for a story tells him that the man is innocent, but can he prove it in the space of twelve hours?  There&#8217;s a lot about this film that works well:  the prison warden and guards are not stereotypes, and are played with honesty and compassion; the scenes showing Beachum saying goodbye to his wife and daughter are heart-rending and free of mawkishness; Denis Leary even does an intense yet restrained portrayal of Everett&#8217;s frustrated and betrayed editor.  However, the film&#8217;s race against time is clich&eacute;d, the climax is predictable, and the epilogue is trite.  And all throughout, I couldn&#8217;t help but think that Eastwood was too old for the role of Everett.  Still, it&#8217;s a strong film, and an emotional plea in opposition to the death penalty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the sudden death of a colleague, grizzled reporter Steve Everett (Clint Eastwood) finds himself having to do a story on a death-row convicted murderer Frank Beachum (Isaiah Washington) before he is executed at midnight. His nose for a story tells him that the man is innocent, but can he prove it in the space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_35_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}