Unsold TV pilot based on the James Ellroy novel. An ambitious internal affairs investigator, a simple but tough patrolman and a morally gray vice squad detective investigate corruption and a mysterious heroin smuggling ring in 1950s L.A.
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Title: L.A. Confidential (TV Movie 2003)
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Cast
| Credited cast: | |||
| Kiefer Sutherland | ... | Det. Jack Vincennes | |
| Josh Hopkins | ... | Officer Bud White | |
| David Conrad | ... | Det. Ed Exley | |
| Pruitt Taylor Vince | ... | Sid Hudgens | |
| Melissa George | ... | Lynn Bracken | |
| Tom Nowicki | ... | Capt. Smith | |
| Eric Roberts | ... | Pierce Patchett | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Bruno Angelico | ... | Chuey |
| J.R. Cacia | ... | Drug Dealer (as Joseph Cacia) | |
| Shannon Collis | ... | Girl | |
| Robert Foxworth | ... | Ed Exley's father | |
| Anna Gunn | ... | Renata | |
| David Hutchison | ... | Officer #3 | |
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Damon Kirsche | ... | Ranny Sanson |
| Jack McGee | ... | Jack's Partner | |
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Originally made in 2000 and pitched unsuccessfully to both HBO and Fox, this unsold TV pilot based, like the Academy Award-winning L.A. Confidential (1997), on the novel of the same name by James Ellroy, follows an ambitious internal affairs investigator, a simple but tough patrolman and a morally gray vice squad detective investigating corruption and a mysterious heroin smuggling ring in 1950s L.A. Detective Ed Exley is an ambitious young internal affairs investigator with an influential father, who may or may not have gotten him the job. He is brought in to put corrupt cops under control but only faces mockery and hostility from his peers. Simple but tough patrolman, Bud White, who's still haunted by childhood memories of his father abusing his mother, bravely intervenes when two robbers take a woman hostage in her home, making him an ideal candidate for his precinct's captain's special clandestine police unit. Vice squad detective, Jack Vincennes, is still paying for his crime of ...
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reference to marcel proust | reference to remembrance of things past the novel | reference to robert mitchum | reference to joseph conrad | reference to lord jim the novel |Parents Guide:
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Seriously, what is wrong with the producers behind this garbage idea and effort?