Storyline
Life takes a nasty twist for D.A. Rusty Sabich when the woman he has been romantically involved with is murdered. He is assigned to investigate the case, but is soon charged with the murder.
Directors
Cast
Harrison Ford, Jeffrey Wright, Brian Dennehy, Bonnie Bedelia, Joseph Mazzello, Tucker Smallwood, Sab Shimono, Anna Maria Horsford, Paul Winfield, Peter Appel, Christine Estabrook, Joe Grifasi, Michael Tolan, Joseph Carberry, Bradley Whitford, Tom Mardirosian, John Spencer, Raúl Juliá, Greta Scacchi, Madison Arnold, Bill Winkler, Ed Wheeler
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Reviews
90
Intelligent, complex and enthralling, Presumed Innocent is one of those rare films where all the players seem to be in a state of grace, where the working of the machinery never shows and after it's over, one runs and reruns its intricacies with a profound sense of satisfaction.
88
Presumed Innocent has at its core one of the most fundamental fears of civilized man: the fear of being found guilty of a crime one did not commit. That fear is at the heart of more than half of Hitchcock's films, and it is one reason they work for all kinds of audiences. Everybody knows that fear.
80
Empire
A well-rigged whodunit based on the bestseller by Scott Turrow, that pretends to investigate the various political manipulations that haunt your average district attorney’s office but is in truth about the wages of sin.
80
Alan J. Pakula has directed an intense, enveloping, gratifyingly thorough screen adaptation of Mr. Turow's story. Mr. Pakula, who also co-wrote the film with Frank Pierson, is well suited to the job of conveying both the story's suspense and its underlying sobriety.
80
Honed to a riveting intensity by director Alan Pakula and featuring the tightest script imaginable, Presumed Innocent is a demanding, disturbing javelin of a courtroom murder mystery.
