True Crime (1996 film)

True Crime
Directed by Pat Verducci
Produced by Jonathan Furie
Andrew Hersh
Written by Pat Verducci
Starring Alicia Silverstone
Kevin Dillon
Bill Nunn
Marla Sokoloff
Music by Blake Leyh
Cinematography Chris Squires
Edited by Gib Jaffe
Distributed by Trimark Pictures
Release date
  • March 12, 1996 (1996-03-12)
Running time
 94 minutes
Country United States
Language English

True Crime is a 1996 film that was directed and written by Pat Verducci. It starred Alicia Silverstone and Kevin Dillon.

Synopsis

Mary Giordano (Alicia Silverstone) is a bright, intelligent student who attends a Catholic school in Burlingame, California. She is about to graduate in a few weeks. She is addicted to mystery novels and detective magazines, hence the title of the movie; this inspires her to do her own detective work, as she has aspirations of becoming a police officer herself. When she starts snooping around on the case of murdered teenage girls, it gets her into difficulty with her mentor, Detective Jerry Guinn (Bill Nunn). Guinn knew Mary's father who was a cop and he was killed in the line of duty. He is worried about Mary and doesn't want her in the field. Mary teams up with police cadet Tony Campbell (Kevin Dillon) to investigate, and as the two work together to find the murderer, they seem to have feelings for one another. But the closer Mary gets to solving the murder, the greater the danger of being the next victim to which she exposes herself. Mary almost figures out that Tony is the murderer the whole time.

Ultimately, "Campbell" is revealed to be using an alias; his real name is Daniel Henry Moffat and he proves to be the culprit in the murders. The last scene of the film shows Mary putting on her cadet uniform having accomplished her dream of becoming a police officer, like her father as a reward for solving the murder case. She glances over at her cabinet of True Crime articles before closing it.

Cast

Production

The film was produced on location at John Marshall High School in Los Angeles, California.

Other titles for this film are Dangerous Kiss and True Detective. As stated above, it was released directly to video instead of in theaters.

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