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Lonely Hearts (2006) More at IMDbPro »

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Lonely Hearts is a true story, set in the late 1940s. Jared Leto is Ray Fernandez, a slick conman pulling his marks from the lonely heart section of the newspaper, romancing them and then taking off with all of their cash. According to the film, his scumbag pattern only turns deadly after he meets Martha Beck (Salma Hayek), who begins to work with him, posing as his sister. Her jealousy, however, leads to her killing the women that Ray is romancing. Travoltas character, Elmer Robinson, becomes obsessed with busting Fernandez after one of his marks commits suicide, and he and his partner, Charles Hildebrandt (Gandolfini) are already on the robbing Romeos tail when he hooks up with Beck.

This one reminded me of LA Confidential crossed with The Black Dahlia, though it was better than the latter and not as good as the former. I often dont enjoy period pieces like this, but I found this one fairly engaging.