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Presumed Innocent

Some people would kill for love

1990 · 2h 7m · R Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by Alan J. Pakula

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Overview

Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fight to clear his name becomes a whirlpool of lies and hidden passions.

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87%
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Rotten

Conscientiously as this movie has been made, it does not work as well as the novel did or as some of Pakula's other films have.

Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
Fresh

Pakula and the cast are excellent in the cut and thrust debates and the grilling of witnesses. At least on the surface, Presumed Innocent unfolds in the grand tradition of great courtroom drama. But nothing in Presumed Innocent is what it seems.

Desmond Ryan, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh

Presumed Innocent is a stylish, dark-toned movie with handsome photography (by Gordon Willis) and solid performances.

Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
Rotten

A ponderous adaptation of Scott Turow's cunningly plotted mystery novel.

Terrence Rafferty, New Yorker
Fresh

Intelligent, complex and enthralling.

Sheila Benson, Los Angeles Times

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