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After a wealthy heiress is murdered in her beach house, her devastated husband becomes the prime suspect. He hires a lawyer who hasn’t taken a criminal case in years, and as they work together, a complicated romance develops amidst the trial.
1985 · Directed by Richard Marquand · 108 min · Thriller · 12 frames
Tagline
When a murder case is this shocking, which do you trust? Your emotions or your evidence?
Crew
- Screenplay: Joe Eszterhas
- Cinematography: Matthew F. Leonetti
- Edited by: Sean Barton, Conrad Buff IV
- Music: John Barry
- Production design: Gene Callahan
- Produced by: Martin Ransohoff
Cast
- Glenn Close as Teddy Barnes
- Jeff Bridges as Jack Forrester
- Peter Coyote as Thomas Krasny
- Lance Henriksen as Frank Martin
- Robert Loggia as Sam Ransom
- Michael Dorn as Dan Hislan
- Maria Mayenzet as Page Forrester
- William Allen Young as Greg Arnold
- Ben Hammer as Dr. Goldman
- James Karen as Andrew Hardesty
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Delphi IV Productions, Columbia Pictures
- Budget: $15,000,000
- Box office: $40,491,165
- Themes: court, proof, client, sociopath, lawyer, courtroom, beach house, heiress, psycho killer, neo-noir
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