True Crime is a 1996

1996 in film

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 film directed by Pat Verducci and starring Alicia Silverstone

Alicia Silverstone

Alicia Silverstone is an American actress, author, and former fashion model. She first came to widespread attention in music videos for Aerosmith, and is perhaps best known for her roles in Hollywood films such as Clueless and her portrayal of Batgirl in Batman & Robin .-Early life:Silverstone...

 and Kevin Dillon

Kevin Dillon

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.

Synopsis

Mary Giordano is a bright, intelligent student who goes to a Catholic school. She is addicted to mystery novels and detective magazines (hence the title of the movie), which inspire her to do her own detective work. When she starts snooping around on the case of murdered teenage girls, it gets her in hot water with her mentor Detective Jerry Guinn. Mary teams up with police cadet Tony Campbell (Kevin Dillon

Kevin Dillon

Kevin Dillon is an American actor.Kevin Dillon is also the name of:*Kevin Dillon , character from Rodman Philbrick's young adult novel Freak the Mighty and the film based on it, The Mighty...

). The two work together to find the murderer and seem to have feelings for one another. But the closer Mary gets to solving the murder, the more danger she puts herself in of being the next victim.

Cast

• Alicia Silverstone
  Alicia Silverstone
  Alicia Silverstone is an American actress, author, and former fashion model. She first came to widespread attention in music videos for Aerosmith, and is perhaps best known for her roles in Hollywood films such as Clueless and her portrayal of Batgirl in Batman & Robin .-Early life:Silverstone...
  
   as Mary Giordano
• Kevin Dillon
  Kevin Dillon
  Kevin Dillon is an American actor.Kevin Dillon is also the name of:*Kevin Dillon , character from Rodman Philbrick's young adult novel Freak the Mighty and the film based on it, The Mighty...
  
   as Cadet Tony Campbell/Daniel Henry Moffat
• Bill Nunn
  Bill Nunn
  -Early life:Nunn was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of William G. Nunn, Jr., a well-known journalist and editor at the Pittsburgh Courier, as well as an NFL scout. Nunn's paternal grandfather was the first African American football player at George Westinghouse High School.Nunn was a...
  
   as Detective Jerry Guinn
• Michael Bowen
  Michael Bowen (actor)
  Michael Bowen is an American actor. Films he has appeared in include Jackie Brown, Magnolia, and Less Than Zero. Bowen also had a recurring role as Danny Pickett on the ABC television series, Lost....
  
   as Earl Parkins
• Marla Sokoloff
  Marla Sokoloff
  Marla Lynne Sokoloff is an American actress and musician, known for playing the part of Lucy Hatcher on the TV show The Practice, and Gia Mahan on the ABC sitcom, Full House.- Personal life :...
  
   as Vicki Giordano
• Ann Devaney as Sherry Tarnley
• Joshua Shaefer as John Giordano
• Jennifer Savidge as Celia Giordano
• Tara Subkoff
  Tara Subkoff
  Tara Lyn Subkoff is an American actress and fashion designer from Westport, Connecticut. She has acted in over a dozen movies, most recently 2006's The Notorious Bettie Page....
  
   as Liz McConnell
• David Packer
  David Packer
  David Packer is an American actor. He was born in Passaic, New Jersey.His first starring role was as the human traitor Daniel Bernstein in the 1983 NBC miniseries V. He reprised the role in the 1984 sequel V: The Final Battle....
  
   as Sergeant Collins
• Alissa Dowdy as Kathleen Donlevy
• Aimee Brooks
  Aimee Brooks
  Aimee Brooks is an American actress born on 19 November 1974 in California. She is known for her starring roles in horror movies. She had acted in Critters 3 with Leonardo DiCaprio...
  
   as Margie Donlevy

Production

Filmed on location at John Marshall High School

John Marshall High School (Los Angeles, California)

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 in Los Angeles

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, California

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. Other titles for film are known as Dangerous Kiss and True Detective.