A former criminal prosecutor (Glenn Close) for the District Attorney's office is reluctant to accept a high profile murder case. A man (Jeff Bridges) has been accused of the brutal murder of his wealthy wife (Maria Mayenzet) and all the evidence points to him as her killer. Directed by Richard Marquand (
RETURN OF THE JEDI), this is a pretty intense courtroom thriller. Not all of it is set in the courtoom, there are enough expository scenes to keep the film from getting too closed up and claustrophobic. Basically, the film is a did he (Bridges) or did he not do it mystery. The film's screenwriter Joe Eszterhaz later essentially reworked the same storyline but with changed genders a few years later with
BASIC INSTINCT. Close is very good (though she overworks the tears) and Bridges is suitably ambiguous. The score by John Barry is one of his least interesting efforts. With Robert Loggia as an obscenity spouting private detective who got an undeserved Oscar nomination for his performance here, Peter Coyote, Leigh Taylor Young, James Karen and Lance Henriksen.
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