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True Confessions
Directed by
Ulu Grosbard
R
1981
1h 48m
Crime
,
Drama
6.3
71%
53%
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De Niro (a Catholic Priest) and Duvall (a Homicide Detective) play brothers drawn together after many years apart, in the aftermath of the brutal murder of a young prostitute.
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Cast of True Confessions
Robert De Niro
Father Des Spellacy
Robert Duvall
Det. Tom Spellacy
Charles Durning
Jack Amsterdam
Kenneth McMillan
Frank Crotty
Ed Flanders
Dan T. Campion
Cyril Cusack
Cardinal Danaher
Burgess Meredith
Msgr. Seamus Fargo
Rose Gregorio
Brenda Samuels
Dan Hedaya
Howard Terkel
Gwen Van Dam
Mrs. Fazenda
Thomas Hill
Mr. Fazenda
Jeanette Nolan
Mrs. Spellacy
Jorge Cervera Jr.
Eduardo Duarte
Susan Myers
Bride
Louisa Moritz
Whore
Darwyn Carson
Loran Keane
James Hong
Coroner Wong
Pat Corley
Sonny McDonough
Missy Cleveland
Lois Fazenda - Murder Victim
Jeff Howard
Priest #2
Ulu Grosbard
Director
Gary S. Hall
Writer
Robert Chartoff
Producer
Irwin Winkler
Producer
True Confessions Ratings & Reviews
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
This was largely dismissed upon its original release, yet it remains an underrated picture.
Newsday
Joseph Gelmis
True Confessions is brilliantly cast and acted.
Boston Phoenix
Stephen Schiff
Spanning the world of the priest and the world of the cop, True Confessions is at once terribly refined and terribly with it -- holier-than-thou and hipper-than-thou at the same time.
Philadelphia Gay News
Larry Vitacco
Robert DeNiro and Robert Duvall give masterful performances.
Washington Post
Gary Arnold
Des is another solitary soul, but perhaps he's the most subtle and accessible solitary De Niro has yet embodied -- a man whose isolation draws you closer instead of giving you the willies.
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
Two exciting, dangerous actors have little to do: Duvall spends too much time pacing and waiting; De Niro's big scene has him hanging up his vestments.
TV Guide
A fascinating film that exposes the dark underside of the Catholic Church and fixes it firmly in the seedy, corrupt world of film noir.
Variety
Variety Staff
Given the powerhouse topline casting combo and provocative theme, True Confessions has to be chalked up as something of a disappointment.
Old School Reviews
John A. Nesbit
Acting compensates for disappointing ending
Fantastica Daily
Chuck O'Leary
An atmospheric, always-intriguing mystery that works equally well as a perceptive character study. One of the very best films of the 1980s.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
True Confessions contains scenes that are just about as good as scenes can be. Then why does the movie leave us disoriented and disappointed, and why does the ending fail dismally?
New York Times
Vincent Canby
Quite simply it's one of the most entertaining, most intelligent and most thoroughly satisfying commercial American films in a very long time.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Robert Duvall puts in a top-drawer performance in this crime drama mixing sleuthing and sacraments, crime and confession - one of the best films of 1981.
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