Al Ruscio, Dave Austin, Glenn Close
San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires lawyer Teddy Bar...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 2, 2000
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Stats: 146 reviews
Flixster Reviews (146)
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June 15, 2007A great, tense and violent thriller as a laywer defends a man accused of killing his wife.....and starts to fall for him herself.
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April 1, 2007The whole selling point of this film at the time was it's "shock" ending. Which is so unbelievably predictable, a 2 year old could guess it. A waste of time.
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November 22, 2009Very taut thriller, but it does have some rather large holes in the plot, and it does go too extreme and off the deep end. Jeff Bridges and Glenn Close to a terrific job, because of them I remained interested throughout.
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July 12, 2009Cool story about a lawyer who is defending a man accused of killing his wife, only to fall in love with him herself. Glenn Close and Jeff Bridges are well-cast in this clever drama thriller.
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December 28, 2008well ummn just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a pretty good movie 2 watch,,,i think that jeff bridges n glenn close both play really good parts throughout this movie...i think that the director of this Drama, Mystery & Suspense movie had done a really good jo...( read more)
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Critic Reviews
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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December 4, 2007*spoiler*
Did anyone else not expect the bit where shes just taken the typewritter home and he comes through the door? haha I definately wasn't.
I think thats the highest i've ever jumped in a movie (which is not an often occurance for me at all)
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