In a nutshell:

Corruption, movie star call girls and the Big H, just another day in Hollywood.

Trailer:

Tagline:

Everything is suspect...everyone is for sale...and nothing is what it seems.

Quotes:

'Off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush.'

'This is the City of the Angels, and you haven't got any wings.'

'Hold up your badge, so they'll know you're a policeman.' 

Plot:

Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe portray hardboiled L.A. cops gumshoe through the smoky, Venetian-blind shadowed corruption of classic 1953 Noir Hollywood.

Ed Exley (Pearce) is the straight-laced, play by the rules, mama’s boy. Bud White (Crowe) is the squad’s muscle with a thing for helping damsels in distress.

Then there’s Sergeant Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey), who’s on the payroll of the town’s tabloid rag, Hush Hush, the technical advisor for a cop show and a narc who keeps the stash he finds at the scene.

Their paths intersect with the Nite Owl murders. Exley seizes the opportunity to prove his worth; even taking off his signature glasses since apparently no other detective is dorky enough to have eye problems.

White senses a deeper conspiracy behind the murders. He can’t shake the meathead persona so he investigates on his own, finding the not-so-damsel in distress, Lynn Bracken (Kim Basinger), a high class hooker who looks like Veronica Lake.

Taking her cues from the real Veronica Lake, Bracken is your cliched bombshell, femme fatale.

Vincennes, during a demotion to vice, finds a connection from porn, hookers, drugs and power; seeing that those things always maintain a healthy connection.

Throw in the Irish police captain, a Walt Disney look-a-like pimp and Danny DeVito as their separate investigations merge, threatening to expose the steaming pile of corruption and greed running the City of Angels.

Written by: Shanel Wilson