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Summary: Starts Strong, But Limps to Finish
Review: Suspect has a fine director and a stellar cast, and the first half of the movie lives up to its surroundings. Unfortunately, when the movie reaches the trial about midway through, all logic gets thrown out of the window. A pity, because, God knows, intelligent courtroom drama is hard to come by. Still, the movie has its moments, and both Cher and Liam Neeson are excellent. Rent this one and save yourself some money.
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Summary: Starts Strong, But Limps to Finish
Review: Suspect has a fine director and a stellar cast, and the first half of the movie lives up to its surroundings. Unfortunately, when the movie reaches the trial about midway through, all logic gets thrown out of the window. A pity, because, God knows, intelligent courtroom drama is hard to come by. Still, the movie has its moments, and both Cher and Liam Neeson are excellent. Rent this one and save yourself some money.
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: Suspect is one movie who will keep you guessing through the entire movie, its a great who dunnit thriller that keeps you guessing through and through, good acting and a good plot make this a winner in my book...
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Summary: Suspenseful Stuff
Review: This is one of Cher's best films, and Dennis Quaid is superb portraying a juror serving on this case about a wrongly accused homeless vet(portrayed by Liam Neeson). Mystery, suspense and a few sexy moments make this a great flick.
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Summary: A very suspenseful movie with two big stars in it!
Review: This movie has Cher playing a public defender who assigned a case against Liam Nesson. During the course of the trial ,she get involved with one of the jurors(Dennis Quaid,Any Given Sunday).Quaid is a lobbyist who has connections to the big policticans in Washington D.C. Eventually both Quaid and Cher discover who the really killer is. The movie is very suspeseful and mushy as Quaid and Cher fall in love a little. This movie also co-stars John Mahoney(Frasier,Betrayed) and Joe Montegna(Baby's Day Out) as a judge and a public defender for the country! Now if the studio would please put this movie on DVD I'll be happy to replace my VHS tape for the superior DVD format!
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Summary: Cher for the defense
Review: This one will hopefully be restocked soon for Cher die-hards who'll find this suspenseful who-dun-it a worthy view. As Washington, D.C. public defender Kathleen Riley, Cher gets appointed by the court to defend a homeless deaf-mute (Lian Neeson, in one of his first substantial roles) accused in the brutal murder of a Justice Department file clerk. Setting out with a presumed guilt for her client, Ms. Riley comes to believe in her client's innocence and sets out to prove it. On the trial jury is dairy farm lobbyist Dennis Quaid who takes a judically improper and unethical active role in proving the defendant's innocence after he develops the hots for the defense counsel. Of course, the likelihood of a juror getting it on with the defense lawyer during trial is ludicrous and, in real life, would probably get both charged criminally and the lawyer disbarred. But the credible acting of the leads helps us to overlook that unlikely scenario and focus instead on who really done it. Anyone with any background knowledge of law, procedure and ethics might wonder about some of the judicial rulings handed down by the trial judge, but they figure significantly in the who and why of who really done it. Cher, by the time she made the film, was firmly established as a leading lady, and she demonstrates here that she can carry the responsibility. "Suspect," despite its unlikely premise, is nonetheless a compelling view, and the solution (and, yes, the defendant is innocent) is a stunner!
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Summary: Amazon says widescreen, so we sell widescreen!
Review: We preview all of the movies sold online by hand, and we try to provide the most accurate information as possible. Normally, DVDs come in WideScreen format, and in this case there are no formats listed. Our DVD contains Anamorphic Widescreen Display. If you want the widescreen edition, shop with us :).
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Summary: Stylish Courtroom Thriller Has Precision and Poise
Review: When a deaf-mute homeless man is accused of murdering a federal worker in Washington DC, the public defender assigned to the case assumes he is guilty--until she begins to receive tips about the case from the most unlikely of sources: a member of the jury seated for the trial. Any one even remotely conversant with the law will find the story so full of loopholes that it is more than a little ridiculous, but it scarcely matters: the cast carries it off in fine style, playing the script with exceptional precision and poise and generating plenty of suspense along the way. Cher is particularly noteworth as the public defender assigned to the case. Cher? Playing a Washington D.C. attorney? It's hardly typecasting, but once more Cher demonstrates the depth of her talent: not only is she extremely effective, she is completely believable. The same might be said for both Liam Neeson, who plays the deaf-mute on trial, and Dennis Quaid, who plays the smarmy juror who begins to put two and two together; SUSPECT is clearly Cher's picture, but her co-stars are every bit as good as she.Although it has its share of courtroom pyrotechnics and suspenseful moments, SUSPECT is a surprisingly low-key and all the more successful for it. When all is said and done we like the characters as people, believe in them, and are glad we met them. While it will never compete with the likes of Hitchcock, SUSPECT is a good, solid, and very unpretentious courtroom thriller excuted with a great deal of style. Those whose tastes run in that direction will be very pleased indeed. Recommended.
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