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To Live and Die in L.A.
Directed by
William Friedkin
R
1985
1h 56m
[Crime](/on-demand/category/crime), [Drama](/on-demand/category/drama)
7.3
89%
79%
7.1
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A Secret Service agent becomes obsessed with catching a ruthless counterfeiter.
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Cast of To Live and Die in L.A.
William L. Petersen
Richard Chance
Willem Dafoe
Rick Masters
John Pankow
John Vukovich
Debra Feuer
Bianca Torres
John Turturro
Carl Cody
Dean Stockwell
Bob Grimes
Darlanne Fluegel
Ruth Lanier
Michael Greene
Jim Hart
Steve James
Jeff Rice
Robert Downey Sr.
Thomas Bateman
Christopher Allport
Max Waxman
Valentin de Vargas
Judge Filo Cedillo
Jack Hoar
Jack
Dwier Brown
Doctor
Michael Chong
Thomas Ling
Jacqueline Giroux
Claudia Leith
Michael Zand
Terrorist
Bobby Bass
FBI Agent
Dar Robinson
FBI Agent
Anne Betancourt
Nurse
To Live and Die in L.A. Ratings & Reviews
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
If Friedkin occasionally goes overboard, he certainly commands an attention-getting technique and manages to tell a fascinating story.
Tampa Tribune
Bob Ross
The film's non-stop cinematic cheap thrills come at the expense of credibility and taste.
Detroit Free Press
Catharine Rambeau
Comparisons to TV's "Miami Vice" are probably inevitable because of the picture's look and sound track. But "To Live and Die in L.A." is hotter, faster, kinkier, and has better music.
New York Daily News
Kathleen Carroll
This movie leaves one feeling just squeamish and bored.
Austin American-Statesman
Patrick Taggart
It's a well-made, pulse-quickening action picture, but one that is, finally, as exhausting as it is entertaining.
Baltimore Sun
Lou Cedrone
The film is nothing if not fast, and if you are willing to settle for that, if you are willing to look beyond the inconsistencies, you're likely to enjoy the film. It's hard.
Boston Globe
Michael Blowen
"To Live and Die in L.A." isn't the prettiest film of the year, but it's one of the best.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
Petersen is to be congratulated for creating a solid character out of a film that likes its decor and soundtrack more than its actors.
Gone With The Twins
Mike Massie
Friedkin once again capably handles action sequences.
Cinapse
Ed Travis
Both excellent, A-list action film and deconstruction of the alpha male wild card cop cliche, Friedkin furiously displays his mastery of the form with this phenomenal 1980s thriller.
Washington Post
Paul Attanasio
"To Live and Die in L.A." will live briefly and die quickly in L.A., where God hath no wrath like a studio executive with bad grosses.
Village Voice
Bilge Ebiri
It feels like a transmission from a different planet.
7M Pictures
Kevin Carr
The film is cheesy as hell but it is a ton of fun for someone who remembered how this passed as uber-edgy back in the day.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
The action thrives on overkill.
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
A profoundly ambivalent motion picture... completely upends every convention of its hidebound genre without even seeming to notice that it has done so.
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Sean Axmaker
[William] Friedkin creates a jittery atmosphere of adrenaline and corruption and danger...
Variety
Variety Staff
Engrossing and diverting enough on a moment-to-moment basis but is overtooled.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
On its own terms, it's a considerable success, though it's a film that sacrifices everything in the interests of style.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The film isn't just about cops and robbers, but about two systems of doing business, and how one of the systems finds a way to change itself in order to defeat the other.
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
The only problem is that Friedkin would never get any better than this.
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