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Synopsis: In 1946, the former boxers Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert and Lee Blanchard are policemen in Los Angeles. Lee has a good relationship with his chief and uses a box fight between them to promote the department and get a raise to the police force. They succeed and are promoted to homicide detectives, working together. Bucky becomes a close friend of Lee and his girlfriend Kay Lake, forming a triangle of love. When the corpse of the aspirant actress 'Elizabeth Short (I)' is found mutilated, Lee becomes obsessed to solve the case called by the press Black Dahlia. Meanwhile, Bucky's investigation leads him to a Madeleine Linscott, the daughter of a powerful and wealthy constructor that resembles the Black Dahlia. In an environment of corruption and lies, Bucky discloses hidden truths.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Brian De Palma
Production: Universal Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 12 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.6
Metacritic:
49
Rotten Tomatoes:
32%
R
Year:
2006
121 min
$22,518,325
Website
469 Views


For messing up Nash...

So,

on the night that he went to the

Olympic to settle an old score

you tracked him there.

Like a dog.

I've been pointing my gun

at a lot of people this week.

I haven't had a chance

to shoot anybody yet.

What do you think?

I think you'd rather f*** me

than kill me,

but you don't have

the guts to do either.

You're a boxer, not a fighter.

You're a murderer.

Of my partner.

A murderer?

Of Lee Blanchard?

You should thank me

for Lee Blanchard.

If it weren't for me,

you wouldn't

have had the balls

to f*** your partner's girl.

You don't talk

about them, okay?

Wait. I forgot.

You don't f*** her anymore

because you'd rather

f*** me.

You don't talk about them.

You chose me over her.

You'll choose me over him.

He was going to take

Daddy's money and leave,

leave all of you.

You'd never shoot me.

Don't forget who I look like.

Because that girl,

that sad, dead b*tch,

she's all you have.

No.

Madeleine was wrong.

I had others.

Ones I'd loved

and ones who'd loved me.

People I'd betrayed and people

I needed to protect.

And, for the first time

in my life,

I had people that knew that,

for the briefest of times,

in the darkest of places,

I had been so,

so good at some things.

Come inside.

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Josh Friedman

Josh Friedman (born 1967) is an American screenwriter best known as writer of the TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and the 2005 film adaptation of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds. Friedman also publishes the blog "I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing". After being offered an opportunity to work on a script titled Snakes on a Plane, Friedman posted a blog entry that sparked interest in the film on the Internet before the movie entered production. The same entry introduced a profane line that was added to the film when the cast reconvened in March 2006 to shoot additional footage. On August 1, 2013 he was announced as co-screenwriter of Avatar 2 with James Cameron. He is a kidney cancer survivor. more…

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