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Twilight (1998)

Twilight poster
Directed by
Robert Benton
Genre
drama film, crime film, thriller film, neo-noir
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
R
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 224 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An aging private detective gets caught up in a web of secrets and old grudges while staying with old friends. The case involves a missing person and a possible murder, forcing him to confront dangerous truths about the people he trusts.

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What happens

Twilight is a 1998 American neo-noir thriller film directed by Robert Benton, written by Benton and Richard Russo, and starring Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, Reese Witherspoon, Stockard Channing and James Garner. The film's original score was composed by Elmer Bernstein. Twilight was released by Paramount Pictures on March 6, 1998. It received mixed reviews from critics and was a box-office bomb, grossing $15.1 million against its $20 million budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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