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Dark Blue is a 2002 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Ron Shelton and written by David Ayer, based on a story written for film by crime novelist James Ellroy and takes place during the days leading up to the Rodney King trial verdict. The film stars Kurt Russell, with Ving Rhames and Brendan Gleeson in supporting roles. Plot Los Angeles, 1992. The film opens in medias res to LAPD Sergeant Eldon Perry, who is pacing in a motel room with a shotgun and pistol. Five days earlier, four people are killed and one wounded when two men, Darryl Orchard and Gary Sidwell, rob a convenience store in order to gain access to the office safe. Meanwhile, Perry defends his partner, Detective Bobby Keough, before an internal hearing concerning Keough's use of deadly force in a previous case; Keough is later exonerated. Perry and Keough later celebrate Perry's impending promotion with their superior (and Keough's uncle), Jack Van Meter. Van Meter, a corrupt cop who often encourages his subordinates to fabricate evidence, visits Orchard and Sidwell's house later that night and takes the money stolen from the safe, admonishing them for behaving recklessly during the robbery. Van Meter assigns Perry and Keough to investigate the robbery, providing a false alibi for Orchard and Sidwell and telling them to pin the crime on someone else. Meanwhile, Assistant Chief Arthur Holland finds Perry's testimony at Keough's hearing suspicious, doubting that Keough killed the suspect as he was charged. His assistant, Beth Williamson, pulls files on the two men and sees that a man she previously had anonymous casual sex with is Keough. After obtaining a search warrant using underhanded techniques, a SWAT team raids the house of the ex-cons who are to be Perry's fall guys. One of the men escapes and goes into a back alley but is caught by Perry and Keough. Under Perry's orders, Keough reluctantly kills the innocent man and is left visibly shaken. When Perry arrives home later, he learns that his wife is leaving him. Meanwhile, Keough visits Williamson and admits to the killing, offering to testify against Perry on corruption. Seeing both Perry and the robbers as loose ends, Van Meter sets them up to kill each other just as the Los Angeles riots begin. Believing that Perry was sent by Van Meter to kill Orchard and Sidwell, Keough and Williamson also drive to the robbers' address. While all three eventually meet up in the alleys, Keough is killed by Orchard and Sidwell. Williamson tearfully blames Perry for what happened. Perry calls in the incident, hesitating briefly before pursuing Orchard and Sidwell. As the riots unfold, Sidwell is dragged out of his car and beaten to death while Orchard is captured by Perry. Perry then heads to his promotion ceremony, where he confesses about the corruption, implicates Van Meter, and volunteers himself to be arrested. Cast Production In September 2000, it was announced Intermedia had acquired James Ellroy's The Plague Season for development. In February 2001, Kurt Russell had signed on to star in the film which would be directed by Ron Shelton from a re-write David Ayer performed of the initial Ellroy penned script. Ellroy had written the script back in 1993 specifically with Russell in mind for the lead. The following month, Ving Rhames was cast opposite Russell. Reception Box office On its opening weekend, the film debuted on 2,176 theaters and earned $3.9 million. At the end of its theatrical run, it grossed $9.2 million in the United States and Canada and $3 million internationally, accumulating $12.3 million worldwide. Critical response On Rotten Tomatoes, Dark Blue has an approval score of 59% based on 133 reviews, with an average rating of 5.90/10. The consensus reads, "Kurt Russell gives a good performance. Too bad there's nothing here that you haven't seen before." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 57 out of 100 based on 37 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". William Arnold of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer gave the film a positive review. "Ron Shelton's Dark Blue is another harrowingly cynical dirty-cop movie in the recent tradition of Training Day and Narc. Yet it's so much more complex, engrossing and satisfying than those films that the comparison is not entirely fair...." However, the film received a negative review from the L.A. Weekly, "Dark Blue is stuffed to the gills with blithely improbable coincidence and subsidiary story line... Shelton is a likable, generous director who's made two pretty good films (Blaze and Bull Durham), but it's not at all clear he has the chops to take on an action movie, let alone the intricacies of police politics — let alone the politics of race, about which he had more imaginative things to say in White Men Can't Jump." References External links Dark Blue at IMDb Dark Blue at Rotten Tomatoes Dark Blue at Box Office Mojo. Discover the Beth Williamson popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Beth Williamson books.
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The Fortune
Beth WilliamsonWhen Francesca Chastain sets off on the six month journey from New York to Oregon with her family, she is running from the darkness of her past. The land of milk and honey offers a...
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Hell for Leather
Beth WilliamsonGunslinger Kincaid sheds his black clothes and pistols for a homespun shirt and trousers to becomes Cade Brody, a man with dark hair, dark eyes and an even darker past. He doesn’t ...
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Gideon
Beth WilliamsonHanding over the reins is hard. Handing over his heart…damn near impossible.Gideon Blackwood is on the runfrom Tanger’s meddling matchmakers. With no intention of following the res...
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The Most Incredible True Football Stories - The England Edition
Matt OldfieldThe perfect gift for young England football fans! Think you know everything about the Three Lions and the Lionesses? Have you heard of . . . The naughty pitchinvading dog that s...
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The Prospect
Beth WilliamsonJosephine Chastain doesn’t expect to contract typhoid on the way to Oregon and she certainly doesn’t expect to have to stay behind with the one man who drives her to distraction. Y...
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Restless Heart
Beth WilliamsonAngels don’t always have halos.Angeline Hunter ran from a horrific marriage, to start her life again in a small town in Wyoming, away from the Mormon life she had escaped in Utah. ...
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Boundless Heart
Beth WilliamsonLettie Brown had lived her life in the shadow of violence and unhappiness. Finally at home in Forestville, Wyoming, she tries to live a normal life, although she doesn't know how. ...
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His Firefly Cowgirl
Beth WilliamsonDax Blackwood had more than his share of troubles and then she returns to Tanger, Texas, to set his world on its ear. Sophie Evans didn’t plan to ever return to the town she grew u...
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Zeke
Beth WilliamsonA cool man, a fiery woman, a love destined to ignite.Intense, reserved and known for his strategic thinking, Zeke Blackwood has struggled to find his place in the postwar world. Af...
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Nate
Beth WilliamsonAmidst the postwar chaos that rains down around them, a controlling man and a desperate woman must choose between life and love.Nate Marchand grew up as the only son of the town dr...
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The Reward
Beth WilliamsonHermano is not just the bandito you met in The Bounty. He's Malcolm Ross y Zarza halfSpanish, halfScottish bastard son of a Texas hacienda owner who has hidden in the guise of a Me...
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Jake
Beth WilliamsonHaunted by war, a thief finds salvation in the arms of an angel.On the surface, Jake Sheridan is an easygoing man whose problems roll off him like water off a duck’s back. Truth is...
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The Salvation of Sarah
Beth WilliamsonBetrayed By Her Own HeartSarah Spalding has learned to forge her own way and never to trust anyoneleast of all a Yankee. But when her companion abandons her while on a train to Col...
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The Jewel
Beth WilliamsonIsabelle Chastain is the “beautiful” sister, one who is rarely taken seriously because of her looks. She has struggled all her life to overcome people’s first impressions, yet it c...
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Adam
Beth WilliamsonDevils on Horseback Book 6Sometimes the universe has to turn your life sideways so love can find its way in.As the oldest of five, Adam Sheridan’s life is full of obligations. He l...
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Lee
Beth WilliamsonWhen anger and tenacity collide, sparks are inevitable.The Civil War took more than Lee Blackwood’s arm. It took his confidence, his pride…and hope that any woman will see him as m...
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The Gem
Beth WilliamsonCharlie Chastain lives in Ft. Laramie, in the Wyoming territory. Her days are spent hunting for game, dressing the carcasses or stitching clothing from the hides. It’s not the life...
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Her Bucking Bronc
Beth WilliamsonHannah Blackwood cannot get around her own grief. After losing her fiancee, she wallows in selfpity, stuck in an endless cycle of sadness. While her family's ranch business thrives...
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The Tribute
Beth WilliamsonBrett Malloy never thought he quite fit in with his brothers and sister. A quiet man who thought much more than he spoke, Brett spent most of his life in his siblings’ shadows. Aft...
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Ruthless Heart
Beth WilliamsonHe led her astray, and she never wanted to go back.Sheltered all her life, Eliza Hunter never imagined herself alone in the vast Utah plains, much less trailing a mysterious, rugge...
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The Prize
Beth WilliamsonJack Malloy is haunted by memories, the dreams that have stolen his sleep for six months. To escape, he agrees to help his sister Nicky. Unfortunately there is no escape because he...
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The Treasure
Beth WilliamsonRay Malloy is a single father who struggles to find the balance between raising his daughter and running a successful ranch. Unable to control his wild child daughter, he gives int...
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Hurricane Bride
Beth WilliamsonGet caught up in the storm...When a hurricane forces uptight Claire Blackwood's life into a tailspin, she never expects to find her true north again. An opportunity to get back on ...
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Branded
Beth WilliamsonA marriage of convenience shows a determined rancher and a stubborn woman what it means to be branded.When a clause in his grandfather’s will forces Rafe Sinclair to marry or else ...
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On His Knees
Missy PalmyraRenny thought she'd seen the last of Nicholas. Her exhusband had left her alone and devastated. Now he dared to break into her house in the middle of the night? Renny was about to ...
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The Redemption of Micah
Beth WilliamsonPlum Creek, Colorado 1875Once upon a time, they loved each otherNothing about the room that Eppie awakens in feels like homenot the furnishings, the illfitting clothes, or the Colo...
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The Education of Madeline
Beth WilliamsonPlum Creek, Colorado 1872The Right Man Comes AlongMadeline Brewster practically owns Plum City, Colorado. But at thirtytwo, she knows she has missed any chance for happiness. Until...
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The Gift
Beth WilliamsonTrevor Malloy has spent his life enjoying and flirting with women. Life hadn’t given him a female he couldn’t charm until he goes all in at a poker game and loses. To a woman who s...
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The Legacy
Beth WilliamsonAdopted as a teenager, Noah Calhoun always struggled to find his place in the Malloy family. After a bull nearly kills his adopted father, Tyler, guiltridden Noah sets out on his o...
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Be More Sarina
S. Ford & T. DaviesIs there anyone with a track record like Sarina Weigman? Undefeated at any finals she is the epitome of success, so shouldn't you... be more Sarina?Here are 80 scenarios in which S...
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The Present
Beth WilliamsonEthan Malloy has distanced himself from the world after his wife’s death. Two years have passed in selfimposed loneliness. During a fateful snowstorm, he finds a stranger in his ho...
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The Bounty
Beth WilliamsonA fierce bounty hunter. An outlaw on the run. A love that transcends it all.After three years on the run, the notorious bounty hunter Tyler Calhoun catches up with the elusive lady...