High Crimes (Blu-ray) PG-13
Everything you trust. Everything you know. May be a lie...
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 55 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: September 1, 2009
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ashley Judd & Morgan Freeman | |
Performer: | Jim Caviezel, Adam Scott, Amanda Peet, Bruce Davison, Tom Bower, Juan Carlos Hernandez & Michael Gaston | |
Directed by | Carl Franklin | |
Edited by | Carole Kravetz | |
Screenwriting by | Yuri Zeltser & Cary Bickley | |
Composition by | Graeme Revell | |
Director of Photography: | Theo van de Sande | |
Executive Production by | Lisa Henson & Kevin Reidy |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: C- --
Comes off more like a misdemeanor, a flat, unconvincing drama that never catches fire.
Denver Rocky Mountain News
Judd ... eyebrow-cocks her way through Carl Franklin's witless High Crimes.
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Village Voice
Rating: 3.5/5 --
...Starts out as a taut and intriguing story but seems to get more preposterous as it goes...
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Film Quips Online
...Freeman gives the kind of expert performance he can summon in his sleep...
Sight and Sound
In a movie like this, if you're not surprised, if you know what's going to happen and you can figure out everything then it ultimately falls flat and that's why it doesn't work for me.
Ebert & Roeper
...[Judd and Freeman are] both good at projecting a kind of Southern intelligence that knows its way around the frailties of human nature....HIGH CRIMES works to keep us involved and make us care...
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 3/5 --
This thriller-by-numbers fails to add anything fresh to an already exhausted genre.
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BBC.com
Product Description:
Based on the novel by Joseph Finder, HIGH CRIMES is an engaging courtroom thriller that features standout lead performances by Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman. Judd is Claire Kubik, or is she' A successful defense attorney with a seemingly perfect life, Claire is shocked to discover that her husband, Tom (Jim Caviezal), has been arrested by the United States Marine Corps for slaughtering innocent civilians in El Salvador many years before. Not knowing who to believe, Claire eventually accepts her husband's pleas of innocence and sets out to defend him. With the help of wild-card ex-Marine lawyer Charlie Grimes (Freeman) and wet-behind-the-ears Lt. Terrence Embry (Adam Scott), Claire attempts to set the record straight once and for all. But as she uncovers new information that reveals a cover up even she could never have imagined, the stakes are raised, threatening her own life in the process. Acclaimed director Carl Franklin (ONE FALSE MOVE, DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS) embraces his material like a true professional, employing tension-mounting camera movements and clever flashback sequences to turn a potentially standard, by-the-books courtroom drama into an entertaining thriller. Playing another self-reliant, tough character, Judd proves she is one of Hollywood's most dependable stars.
Product Description:
Ashley Judd stars as Claire Kubik, a high-powered attorney whose perfect life comes down when her husband is charged with high crimes of murder. Enlisting the aid of a shrewd military lawyer (Morgan Freeman), Claire will risk her career and even her life to find the truth in this "head-snapping thriller" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel).