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Suspect

1987 · 121 min

Crime, Drama, Thriller

When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and mute. But when public defender Kathleen Riley is assigned to his case, she begins to believe that Anderson may actually be innocent. Juror Eddie Sanger, a Washington lobbyist, agrees, and together the pair begins their own investigation of events.

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Appeals to viewers who enjoy intelligent courtroom suspense where procedural investigation exposes abuses of power and tests faith in the justice system.

Tone
tense, cerebral, bleak
Payoff
revelation, vindication
Pacing
steady
Intensity
intense
Structure
linear
Themes
justice, institutional corruption, prejudice, moral courage
Setting
late twentieth-century, urban courthouses and government offices

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