True Confessions (film)

True Confessions
Theatrical release poster
Directed byUlu Grosbard
Written by
Based onTrue Confessions
by John Gregory Dunne
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyOwen Roizman
Edited byLynzee Klingman
Music byGeorges Delerue
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • September 25, 1981 (1981-09-25)
Running time
108 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$10 million[1]
Box office$12.9 million[2]

True Confessions is a 1981 American neo-noir[3] crime drama film directed by Ulu Grosbard and starring Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall as the brothers Spellacy, a priest and police detective. Produced by Chartoff-Winkler Productions, it is adapted from the novel of the same name by John Gregory Dunne, loosely based on the Black Dahlia murder case of 1947. Dunne wrote the screenplay with his wife, novelist Joan Didion. The film was released on September 25, 1981, receiving generally positive reviews from critics.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference AFI was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "True Confessions (1981)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 29, 2024.
  3. ^ Silver, Alain; Ward, Elizabeth; eds. (1992). Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd ed.). Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press. ISBN 0-87951-479-5