High Crimes

"Everything you trust. Everything you know. May be a lie..."

Apr 5 2002 PG-13 1h 55m
Crime, Drama, Mystery

A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer 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.

Plot

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.

Written by

Joseph Finder, Yuri Zeltser, Grace Cary Bickley

Directed by

Carl Franklin

Cast

Jim Caviezel, Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

20th Century Fox, Manifest Film Company, New Regency Pictures, Epsilon Motion Pictures, Monarch Pictures

Languages

Español, English

Awards

2 nominations

Trailers
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Scores
# of Votes
51,361
Average Rating
6.4 out of 10
Metascore
48
Popularity
NA