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High Crimes (2002)

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Reviews Counted: 130 Fresh: 42  Rotten:88 Average Rating: 5/10
 
Consensus: Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman make this predictable affair watchable.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins

Theatrical Release: Apr 5, 2002 Wide

Box Office: $41,442,009

Synopsis: You live the life you had always pictured: a thriving career, a beautiful house, and most importantly, a wonderful husband. Someone you love and know better than anyone else. But suppose everything you know - everything you trust - about him and your life together may be a lie. For Claire... You live the life you had always pictured: a thriving career, a beautiful house, and most importantly, a wonderful husband. Someone you love and know better than anyone else. But suppose everything you know - everything you trust - about him and your life together may be a lie. For Claire Kubik, that nightmare scenario has become all too real. Claire, a high-powered attorney, and her husband Tom, a successful contractor with his own business, lead the idyllic Marin County life. They're madly in love and planning to have a family. But a random crime - a bungled burglary - at their home triggers a chain of events that shatters their world. Soon after the burglary, FBI agents accost them and, to Claire's shock, arrest Tom. The charge: Under his real name, Ronald Chapman, Tom, as a covert military operative, murdered civilians in El Salvador, and has been a fugitive for the past fifteen years. Claire at first believes these charges must be a case of mistaken identity. But Tom admits he is Ronald Chapman and he was part of a clandestine operation that did result in a massacre for which Tom was blamed. But he assures Claire of his innocence and that the real perpetrators made Tom their fall guy because he alone could identify them as the men who gave and executed the order. Claire prepares to defend her husband in a top-secret military court, where none of the rules she knows so well apply. When a "greenhorn" military attorney, Lt. Embry, is assigned to their case, Claire realizes she needs help from someone who knows these rules - and is willing to break them. She enlists the aid of a "wild card": Charlie Grimes, a former military attorney who relishes the opportunity to take on the very hierarchy that disgraced him years earlier. Squaring off against the formidable military fraternity both in and out of the courtroom, Claire and Grimes gradually begin to uncover what could be a scandalous cover-up perpetrated by one of the most highly decorated and politically connected officers in the Army. Claire must now risk her career and even her life in her quest for the truth. -- © 2002 20th Century Fox [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman, Jim Caviezel, Adam Scott, Amanda Peet

Director: Carl Franklin
Screenwriter: Yuri Zeltser, Cary Bickley
Composer: Graeme Revell

DVD Info

Release:

Jul 5, 2005

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
  • Single Side - Dual Layer

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • Dolby Surround - Spanish, French

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary - 1. Carl Franklin - Director
  • 2. Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd - Stars
  • Comparison - Storyboard-to-Scene
  • Featurettes (7) - 1. Including HOW TO BEAT A LIE DETECTOR TEST
  • 2. Including COMPARING MILITARY VS. CIVILIAN LAW
  • Trailers - Original Theatrical Trailer

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Hampered by a bad script, this is a middling political thriler that's not supsenseful or dramatic enough to generate any interest in the proceedings; the good Morgan Freeman is totally wasted.

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12/05/06
Emanuel Levy
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02/09/06
Derek Adams
Time Out
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12/06/05
Film Threat
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68/100

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03/16/04
Apollo Guide
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1.5/4

This is the work of a director who seems to have been as bored and uninspired making this movie as I was watching it.

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01/07/04
Greg Maki
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
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3/4

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05/20/03
Susan Tavernetti
Palo Alto Weekly
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3/5

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03/30/03
Empire Magazine
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3/5

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03/10/03
Kimberly Jones
Austin Chronicle
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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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03/05/03
Harry Guerin
RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)
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3.5/5

...Starts out as a taut and intriguing story but seems to get more preposterous as it goes...

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02/08/03
John R. McEwen
Film Quips Online
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12/17/02
Rebecca Murray
About.com
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2/5

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12/08/02
Film Threat
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11/19/02
Guardian [UK]
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3/5

Military whodunit isn't great drama, but director Carl Franklin's skill makes for an above-average thriller.

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11/07/02
James Rocchi
Netflix
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11/02/02
Matthew Turner
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10/29/02
FilmFour.com
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10/26/02
This is London
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A pretty fair -- if twist-happy -- thriller.

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10/21/02
Jean Lowerison
San Diego Metropolitan
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10/17/02
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
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10/17/02
Stephen Himes
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