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LA Confidential

By Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland - Film

FilmScreen

Roles

  • Bud
  • White
  • Lynn
  • Braken

About this piece

Bud White interrogates Lynn Braken

Summary

LAPD officer Bud White (Russel Crowe) is investigating a murder case, the Night Owl case, in which several people have been killed, including White's former partner Dick Stensland and a call girl named Susan Lefferts. In this scene Bud White confronts Lynn Braken (Kim Basinger), a Veronica Lake look-alike call girl who knew Susan Lefferts and tries to get information out of her. She tells him they both worked for Pierce Patchett, a shady businessman who runs a prostitution ring with call girls cut to look movie stars. She tells him she doesn't know anything about the murder case.

Tone

FlirtingIn an interrogation sceneHaving an argument

Use cases

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