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29/09/1995 Thriller, Crime, Drama, Mystery 1h 42m
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Private detective Easy Rawlins has been caught on the wrong side of the most dangerous secret in town.

Overview

In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.

  1. Carl Franklin

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Denzel Washington

    Easy Rawlins

  2. Tom Sizemore

    DeWitt Albright

  3. Jennifer Beals

    Daphne Monet

  4. Don Cheadle

    Mouse Alexander

  5. Maury Chaykin

    Matthew Terell

  6. Terry Kinney

    Todd Carter

  7. Mel Winkler

    Joppy

  8. Albert Hall

    Degan Odell

  9. Lisa Nicole Carson

    Coretta James

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Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2015-11-20
Everyone was peeing on my head and telling me it's raining.

Devil in a Blue Dress is written and directed by Carl Franklin, who adapts from the book written by Walter Mosley. It stars Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals, Don Cheadle and Maury Chaykin. Music is by Elmer Bernstein and cinematography by Tak Fujimoto.

Carl Franklin had already laid down a considerable neo-noir marker with his searing 1992 thriller One False Move, here he goes more traditional but garners equally impressive results. Plot has Washington as a WW2 veteran who has lost his job and desperately needs mo...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$27,000,000.00

Revenue
$16,140,822.00

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