True Confessions poster
Screenplay Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne
Director Ulu Grosbard

True Confessions

Tagline: Two brothers out to save everyone else. But they couldn't save each other.

Release Date: 1981-09-25

Duration: 108 minutes

Synopsis

A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.

Casting

  • Robert De Niro
    Father Des Spellacy
  • Robert Duvall
    Det. Tom Spellacy
  • James Hong
    Coroner Wong
  • Burgess Meredith
    Msgr. Seamus Fargo
  • Dan Hedaya
    Howard Terkel
  • Jeanette Nolan
    Mrs. Spellacy
  • Charles Durning
    Jack Amsterdam
  • Cyril Cusack
    Cardinal Danaher
  • Darwyn Carson
    Loran Keane
  • Kenneth McMillan
    Frank Crotty