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City of Lies, the Glossary

City of Lies is a 2018 crime thriller film about the investigations by the Los Angeles Police Department of the murders of rappers Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. It is directed by Brad Furman, with a screenplay by Christian Contreras based on the non-fiction book LAbyrinth by Randall Sullivan.^[1]

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2010s police films
2018 crime drama films
Cultural depictions of Tupac Shakur
Films about the Los Angeles Police Department
Films directed by Brad Furman
Infinitum Nihil films
The Notorious B.I.G.

Amin Joseph

Amin Joseph (born April 26, 1980) is an American actor, director, and producer known for his role as Jerome Saint on John Singleton's crime drama Snowfall.

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Bank Leumi

Bank Leumi (בנק לאומי, lit. National Bank; بنك لئومي) is an Israeli bank.

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Bernard C. Parks

Bernard C. Parks (born December 7, 1943) is an American politician who served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the 8th district in South Los Angeles from 2003 to 2015.

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Bloods

The Bloods are a primarily African-American street gang which was founded in Los Angeles, California.

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Blu-ray

Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format.

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Brad Furman

Brad Furman is an American film and music video director, producer, and writer.

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Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily nonprofit newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer (CEO) (chief executive (CE), or managing director (MD) in the UK) is the highest officer charged with the management of an organization especially a company or nonprofit institution.

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Cocaine

Cocaine (from, from, ultimately from Quechua: kúka) is a tropane alkaloid that acts as a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant.

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Cover-up

A cover-up is an attempt, whether successful or not, to conceal evidence of wrongdoing, error, incompetence, or other embarrassing information.

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Crime fiction

Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, often a murder.

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David Mack (police officer)

David Anthony Mack (born May 30, 1961) is a former professional runner and Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer involved in the Rampart Division's Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (CRASH) unit.

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Dayton Callie

Dayton Callie (born 1946) is an American actor, best known for playing Charlie Utter on HBO's Deadwood, former Police Chief Wayne Unser on Sons of Anarchy, and Jeremiah Otto on AMC's Fear the Walking Dead.

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Deadline Hollywood

Deadline Hollywood, commonly known as Deadline and also referred to as Deadline.com, is an online news site founded as the news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily by Nikki Finke in 2006.

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Death Row Records

Death Row Records is an American record label that was founded in 1991 by The D.O.C., Dr. Dre, Suge Knight, and Dick Griffey.

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Detective

A detective is an investigator, usually a member of a law enforcement agency.

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Fandango Media, LLC is an American ticketing company that sells movie tickets via their website and their mobile app.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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FilmNation Entertainment

FilmNation Entertainment, LLC is a leading independent entertainment company, focused on the production, financing, and distribution of premium content.

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Flashback (narrative)

A flashback (sometimes called an analepsis) is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story.

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Forest Whitaker

Forest Steven Whitaker (born July 15, 1961) is an American actor, producer and director.

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Frank Lyga

Frank Lyga (born) is an American former police officer of the Los Angeles Police Department, who shot and killed officer Kevin Gaines.

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Glenn Plummer

Glenn E. Plummer (born August 18, 1961) is an American film and television actor.

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Good Universe

Good Universe is an American film production company founded by Joe Drake and Nathan Kahane.

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IM Global

IM Global, LLC was an American independent film and TV production company, The company was founded by Stuart Ford in April 2007 and operating in international film, television and music production, as well as sales and international distribution.

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Infinitum Nihil

Infinitum Nihil is an American film production company, founded by Johnny Depp.

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Investigative journalism

Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, racial injustice, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing.

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Johnnie Cochran

Johnnie Lee Cochran Jr.Adam Bernstein,, The Washington Post, March 30, 2005; retrieved April 17, 2006.

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Johnny Depp

John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor and musician.

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Keith Szarabajka

Keith Szarabajka (born December 2, 1952) is an American actor.

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Kevin Chapman

Kevin Chapman (born July 29, 1962) is an American actor known for playing an assortment of characters ranging from the obnoxious brother Terrence Garrity in FX's Rescue Me to street enforcer Val Savage in Clint Eastwood's Mystic River.

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Kevin Gaines (police officer)

Kevin Lee Gaines (February 6, 1966 – March 18, 1997) was an American police officer assigned to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums unit implicated in the Rampart scandal.

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Killer Mike

Michael Santiago Render (born April 20, 1975), better known by his stage name Killer Mike, is an American rapper and activist.

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Laurence Mason

Laurence Mason is an American stage, film and television actor.

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Lawsuit

A lawsuit is a proceeding by one or more parties (the plaintiff or claimant) against one or more parties (the defendant) in a civil court of law.

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List of hood films

This is a list of hood films.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Los Angeles Police Department

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), officially known as the City of Los Angeles Police Department, is the primary law enforcement agency of Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Louis Herthum

Louis Herthum (born July 5, 1956) is an American actor and producer.

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Media circus is a colloquial metaphor, or idiom, describing a news event for which the level of media coverage—measured by such factors as the number of reporters at the scene and the amount of material broadcast or published—is perceived to be excessive or out of proportion to the event being covered.

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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books.

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Michael Paré

Michael Kevin Paré (born October 9, 1958) is an American actor.

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Miramax

Miramax, LLC, formerly known as Miramax Films, is an American independent film and television production and distribution company founded on December 19, 1979, by Harvey and Bob Weinstein, and based in Los Angeles, California.

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Murder of the Notorious B.I.G.

The American rapper Christopher Wallace, better known as the Notorious B.I.G., was murdered in a drive-by shooting in the early hours of March 9, 1997, in Los Angeles, California. City of Lies and murder of the Notorious B.I.G. are the Notorious B.I.G..

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Murder of Tupac Shakur

On September 7, 1996, at 11:15 p.m. (PDT), Tupac Shakur, a 25-year-old American rapper, was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Murder trial of O. J. Simpson

The People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson was a criminal trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court, in which former NFL player and actor O. J. Simpson was tried and acquitted for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, who were stabbed to death outside Brown's condominium in Los Angeles on June 12, 1994.

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Nation of Islam

The Nation of Islam (NOI) is a religious and political organization founded in the United States by Wallace Fard Muhammad in 1930.

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Neil Brown Jr.

Cornelius C. "Neil" Brown Jr. (born June 19, 1980), is an American actor.

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Noir in Festival

Noir in Festival is a film noir film festival, held each December in Milan, Italy.

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Obba Babatundé

Obba Babatundé (born Donald Cohen; December 1, 1951) is an American actor.

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Open Road Films

Open Road Films, LLC (formerly known briefly as Global Road Entertainment) is an American independent film production and distribution company based in Los Angeles, California.

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Pension

A pension is a fund into which amounts are paid regularly during an individual's working career, and from which periodic payments are made to support the person's retirement from work.

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Penske Media Corporation (PMC) is an American mass media, publishing, and information services company based in Los Angeles and New York City.

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Peter Greene

Peter Greene (born Peter Green; October 8, 1965) is an American actor.

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Principal photography

Principal photography is the phase of producing a film or television show in which the bulk of shooting takes place, as distinct from the phases of pre-production and post-production.

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Rafael Pérez (police officer)

Ray Lopez (born Rafael Antonio Pérez; August 22, 1967) is an American former police officer with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and the central figure in the LAPD Rampart scandal.

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Rampart scandal

The Rampart scandal was a police corruption scandal which unfolded in Los Angeles, California, United States, during the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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Randall Sullivan

Randall Sullivan is an American author and journalist who has also worked as a screenwriter, film and television producer and on-camera television personality.

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Redbox

Redbox Automated Retail, LLC is an American video on-demand streaming and video rental company that specialized in DVD, Blu-ray, 4K UHD rentals and purchases and formerly video games via automated retail kiosks and TVOD, AVOD, and FAST services via its website, Android and iOS apps, and many consumer electronic devices.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Lies

Also known as LAbyrinth (2017 film), LAbyrinth (2018 film).

, Obba Babatundé, Open Road Films, Pension, Penske Media Corporation, Peter Greene, Principal photography, Rafael Pérez (police officer), Rampart scandal, Randall Sullivan, Redbox, Richard Roeper, Rockmond Dunbar, Rodney King, Rotten Tomatoes, Russell Poole, Saban Capital Group, Shamier Anderson, Shea Whigham, Suge Knight, The Daily Beast, The Hollywood Reporter, The Notorious B.I.G., The Numbers (website), Toby Huss, Tupac Shakur, Wrongful death claim, Wynn Everett, Xander Berkeley.

City of Lies, the Glossary

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See also

2010s police films

2018 crime drama films

Cultural depictions of Tupac Shakur

Films about the Los Angeles Police Department

Films directed by Brad Furman

Infinitum Nihil films

The Notorious B.I.G.

References