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Why does the reporter in True Crime investigate a prisonerâs case?
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Clint Eastwood
American actor and director Clint Eastwood, 2008.
In the 1999 film True Crime, Clint Eastwood portrays a veteran reporter whose investigative instincts are reignited when he discovers that a prisoner scheduled for execution that same night is likely innocent.1