TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA Original Daybill Movie poster William Petersen Willem Dafoe

To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)

Directed by William Friedkin.

With William Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow, Debra Feuer, John Turturro, Darlanne Fluegel, Dean Stockwell

To Live and Die in L.A. is a 1985 American neo-noir thriller film directed by William Friedkin and based on the 1984 novel by former U.S. Secret Service agent Gerald Petievich, who co-wrote the screenplay with Friedkin. The film features William Petersen, Willem Dafoe and John Pankow among others. Wang Chung composed and performed the original music soundtrack. The film tells the story of the lengths to which two Secret Service agents go to arrest a counterfeiter.