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Bookmark this pageBrown's Requiem (1998)
Director: Jason Freeland
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From Time Out Film Guide
Not so much LA Confidential as 'LA Cliché', this is based on James Ellroy's first book and feels like a dry run for themes and attitudes he went on to explore with far greater complexity and skill. The eternally hoarse Rooker is well cast as Fritz Brown, ex-cop, repo man, and occasional shamus: $500 a day, plus expenses. Hired by one 'Fatdog' to trail his sister's Jewish sugardaddy, Brown soon starts stumbling across your standard cross-section of corrupt cops, cruel corpses and cantankerous caddies. Cantankerous caddies? Well, okay, the film does have its inventive moments, but the rough edit I saw was stymied by too much voice-over and a funereal pace.Author: TCh
Cast & crew
Director: Jason Freeland
Producer: Tim Youd, David Rubin
Cast: Michael Rooker, William Sasso, Kevin Corrigan, Selma Blair, Tobin Bell, Harold Gould, Brion James, Brad Dourif, Valerie Perrine full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 104 mins
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