True Confessions (1981)

Storyline

De Niro (a Catholic Priest) and Duvall (a Homicide Detective) play brothers drawn together after many years apart, in the aftermath of the brutal murder of a young prostitute. True Confessions, the 1981 Ulu Grosbard family relationship crime murder thriller (“Two brothers trapped by a murder… One hid behind his vows. The other behind his badge.”; “Based on the novel by John Gregory Dunne”; an attempt to resurrect film noir) starring Robert De Niro (as a catholic priest; “The Priest”), Robert Duvall (as a homicide detective; “The Cop”), Burgess Meredith, Charles Durning, Ed Flanders, Cyril Cusack, and Kenneth McMillan