True Crime ** (1999, Clint Eastwood, James Woods, Isaiah Washington, LisaGay Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 1828

Producer-director-star Clint Eastwood’s 1999 potboiler thriller has stock characters and a hokey old plot about Steve Everett, a burnt-out wreck of a journalist (Eastwood).

The Oakland Tribune journalist Everett, a man consumed with desire for women and alcohol, is assigned by his boss Bob Findley (Denis Leary), the husband of Everett’s lover (Laila Robins), to report the upcoming execution of murderer Frank Beachum (Isaiah Washington). Everett stumbl