On this day in movie history - True Crime (1999):

True Crime

directed by Clint Eastwood,

written by Larry Gross, Paul Brickman and Stephen Schiff,

based on the novel by Andrew Klavan,

was released in the United States on March 19, 1999.
Music by Lennie Niehaus.

Cast:

Clint Eastwood, Isaiah Washington, LisaGay Hamilton, James Woods, Denis Leary, Bernard Hill, Diane Venora, Michael McKean, Michael Jeter, Mary McCormack, Hattie Winston, Penny Bae Bridges, Francesca Eastwood, John Finn, Laila Robins, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Erik King, Graham Beckel, Frances Fisher, Marissa Ribisi, Christine Ebersole, Anthony Zerbe, Nancy Giles, Tom McGowan, William Windom, Don West, Lucy Liu, Dina Eastwood, Leslie Griffith, Dennis Richmond, Frank Somerville, Dan Green, Nicholas Bearde, Frances Lee McCain, Cecil Williams, Casey Lee, Jack Kehler, Colman Domingo, Linda Hoy, Danny Kovacs, Kelvin Han Yee, Kathryn Howell, Beulah Stanley, George Maguire, Bill Wattenburg, Cathy Fithian, Roland T. Abasolo, Michael Halton, Jade Marx-Berti, Velica Marie Davis, John B. Scott, Edward Silva, Jordan Sax, Rob Reece, Walter Brown, Carmen Molinari, Annie Coffey, Bob Dini, Jodi Fung, Annie Lore, Marcus J. Oliver, Ray Raffaini.

Recommended reading – True Crime, by Andrew Klavan (1995):

True Crime

By Andrew Klavan.

Filmed as True Crime (1999), directed by Clint Eastwood.

Published by Dell.

First published 1995.

Mass Market Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0440224039

ISBN-13: 978-0440224037

Description:

In the heat of the city, a man is out of time: speeding in a beat-up Ford Tempo, blasting easy-listening music. Reporter Steve Everett drinks too much, makes love to his boss's wife, and has just stumbled upon a shocking truth: a convicted killer is about to be executed for a crime he didn't commit.

In the cold confines of Death Row, Frank Beachum is also out of time. Ready to say good-bye to the wife and child he loves and hello to the God he still believes in, Beachum knows he did not kill a convenience store clerk six years ago.  But in a few hours – if Steve Everett can't find the evidence to stop it – a needle is going to pierce Frank Beachum's skin.

The killing machine is primed. The executioner is waiting. And so is the priest. Now the clock is ticking down and the race is on – between the reporter and his demons, between the system and its lethal flaws, between the last innocent man and society's ultimate crime. . . .