Reversal of Fortune

(1990)

★ 6.7 IMDb · 363 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1990

Runtime: 111 мин

Country: Japan, United Kingdom

Director: Барбет Шрёдер

Cast: Гленн Клоуз, Джереми Айронс, Рон Сильвер, Аннабелла Шиорра, Uta Hagen, Фишер Стивенс, Jack Gilpin, Кристин Барански, Stephen Mailer, Кристин Данфорд

Plot

Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.

Alan Dershowitz a brilliant professor of law is hired by wealthy socialite Claus von Bulow to attempt to overturn his two convictions for attempted murder of his extremely wealthy wife. Based on a true story the film concentrates not on the trial like other legal thrillers, but on the preparatory work that Dershowitz and his students put in as they attempt to disprove the prosecution's case and achieve the Reversal of Fortune of the title.