Edward James Olmos stars in Hollywood Confidential as the head of a rough-and-tumble Hollywood private-detective agency that specializes in cases involving the film industry's elite. Olmos' crack team of detectives is a raggedy band of misfits and has-beens who have nothing in common other than their devotion to their incorruptible boss. If this sounds like the makings of an unsuccessful television pilot, it should: Despite its title, Hollywood Confidential owes more to glossy cop shows like Silk Stalkings than it does to last year's critically acclaimed L.A. Confidential. Like most television pilots, Hollywood Confidential devotes much of its running time to introducing its large, interchangeable cast, all of whom seem to have been drawn from the same generic Hollywood casting pool. About the only reasonably entertaining thing about Hollywood Confidential is its cluelessness: The hip pop-culture references the characters spout all seem to concern television shows that were canceled several years ago. While L.A. Confidential displayed a comprehensive understanding of '50s Los Angeles, those behind Hollywood Confidential seem to have gleaned their knowledge of contemporary Hollywood from a few old copies of Entertainment Weekly. Hollywood Confidential's main draw would seem to be the presence of a pair of rising stars—The Devil's Advocate's Charlize Theron and Boogie Nights' Thomas Jane—but unfortunately, both Theron and Jane fade into the woodwork of this woefully derivative film.