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High Crimes (2002)

High Crimes poster
Directed by
Carl Franklin
Genre
drama film, heist film, mystery film, crime film, legal thriller, thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 50m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 892 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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A defense attorney must defend her husband who is charged with a war crime. She teams up with a military lawyer to uncover a conspiracy and prove his innocence.

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What happens

High Crimes is a 2002 American legal thriller film directed by Carl Franklin, based on a screenplay by Yuri Zeltser and Grace Cary Bickley that adapted Joseph Finder's 1998 novel. Starring Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman, the film follows defense attorney Claire Kubik (Judd) as she teams up with a seasoned military attorney (Freeman) to uncover a cover-up while defending her husband, Tom, who is charged with the murder of nine civilians in El Salvador and revealed to have been living under a false identity. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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