High Crimes

(2002)

★ 6.3 IMDb · 910 votes

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime

Year: 2002

Runtime: 115 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Carl Franklin

Cast: Эшли Джадд, Морган Фримен, Джеймс Кэвизел, Адам Скотт, Аманда Пит, Брюс Дэвисон, Том Бауэр, Juan Carlos Hernández, Майкл Гэстон, Jude Ciccolella

Plot

A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer who has been AWOL for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.

High powered lawyer Claire Kubik finds her world turned upside down when her husband, who she thought was Tom Kubik, is arrested and is revealed to be Ron Chapman. Chapman is on trial for a murder of Latin American villagers while he was in the Marines. Claire soon learns that to navigate the military justice system, she'll need help from the somewhat unconventional Charlie Grimes; meanwhile, Claire's sister, Jackie, is falling in love with wet-behind-the-ears Lieutenant Embry assigned as the official defense lawyer. And most of the eyewitnesses have rather too conveniently died.