High Crimes PG-13
Everything you trust. Everything you know. May be a lie...
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 55 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 5, 2005
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: 20th Century Fox
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Morgan Freeman & Ashley Judd | |
Performer: | Jim Caviezel, Adam Scott, Amanda Peet, Bruce Davison, Tom Bower, Juan Carlos Hernandez & Michael Gaston | |
Directed by | Carl Franklin | |
Edited by | Carole Kravetz | |
Screenwriting by | Yuri Zeltser & Cary Bickley | |
Composition by | Graeme Revell | |
Director of Photography: | Theo van de Sande | |
Executive Production by | Lisa Henson & Kevin Reidy |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/5 --
Mediocre thriller of the betrayed-woman genre.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: 2/5 --
High Crimes has its fair share of decent courtroom scenes but the legal tussles are far better than the emotional ones.
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RTÉ (Ireland)
Carl Franklin directs smoothly, but except for Freeman, the theatrics are pretty pro forma.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Rating: C- --
Comes off more like a misdemeanor, a flat, unconvincing drama that never catches fire.
Denver Rocky Mountain News
If Hollywood ever totally collapses, films like High Crimes will be the reason why.
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The Spectator
...Freeman gives the kind of expert performance he can summon in his sleep...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 3/5 --
This thriller-by-numbers fails to add anything fresh to an already exhausted genre.
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BBC.com
Product Description:
Based on the novel by Joseph Finder, HIGH CRIMES is an engaging courtroom thriller that features standout lead performances by Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman. Judd is Claire Kubik, or is she' A successful defense attorney with a seemingly perfect life, Claire is shocked to discover that her husband, Tom (Jim Caviezal), has been arrested by the United States Marine Corps for slaughtering innocent civilians in El Salvador many years before. Not knowing who to believe, Claire eventually accepts her husband's pleas of innocence and sets out to defend him. With the help of wild-card ex-Marine lawyer Charlie Grimes (Freeman) and wet-behind-the-ears Lt. Terrence Embry (Adam Scott), Claire attempts to set the record straight once and for all. But as she uncovers new information that reveals a cover up even she could never have imagined, the stakes are raised, threatening her own life in the process. Acclaimed director Carl Franklin (ONE FALSE MOVE, DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS) embraces his material like a true professional, employing tension-mounting camera movements and clever flashback sequences to turn a potentially standard, by-the-books courtroom drama into an entertaining thriller. Playing another self-reliant, tough character, Judd proves she is one of Hollywood's most dependable stars.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 111,219
- UPC: 024543051473
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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