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Synopsis: Carolyn Polhemus, an up-and-comer in the Kindle County D.A.'s Office, is found viciously murdered in her home. Immediately her boss, D.A. Raymond Horgan and his chief deputy, Rusty Sabich start an investigation. Horgan, however, is in the middle of a campaign to keep his job, which he ultimately loses to former subordinate Nico Della Guardia. Della Guardia and his new deputy, Tommy Molto, decide to prosecute Sabich for Carolyn's murder when it is revealed that Sabich was a former lover of Polhemus. Horgan also turns against his former subordinate, and Rusty soon realizes he has few friends left - except for Sandy Stern, whom he has often faced on the other side of the courtroom, and who will become his new defense lawyer when he is put on trial for murder. Investigation by Stern and his team leads them to think that Rusty was framed for murder - by Molto, who wanted Sabich's job and was trying to punish him for backing Horgan. Is Rusty Sabich innocent...or is he a murderer?
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Director(s): Alan J. Pakula
Production: Warner Bros.
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
72
Rotten Tomatoes:
87%
R
Year:
1990
127 min
1,820 Views


I gotta deal with Molto's stuff.

What's with this reassignment sh*t?

Goddamn it, Rusty!

I told you to give this investigation

top priority.

Nico is eating me alive with this thing.

The election is in ten days.

If you don't find Carolyn's killer,

we are both history.

Turn all of that administrative bullshit

to Mac.

Mac has more than she can handle.

And let me remind you,

we lost two key PA's in one day.

You only have time for the election.

I've got to run the office.

F*** the office!

Don't you see what's happening?

If you don't find me a killer,

there is no f***ing office!

I want you right on top

of Carolyn's case, understand?

Run out every ground ball and do it

in an orderly goddamned fashion!

Start acting like a f***ing professional!

The campaign is a total disaster.

Haven't taken a poll in two weeks.

We don't know where the hell we are.

You're ten minutes late

for the bar meeting on criminal procedure.

Call them and tell them I'm on my way.

Did you assign a bribery case to Carolyn?

There's a file missing.

Loretta, find my driver.

Tell him to be ready to leave.

She had a case on her computer

we can't account for.

It was logged in as a B file.

Nobody knows where it came from.

Nobody knows where it went.

Where the hell is my speech?

It was right here on my desk.

Cody has it.

You're giving me a runaround.

Cody, pull the car around.

I'll meet you down in front.

Give me a straight answer, will you, Boss?

There's the B file, Tiger.

Read it, and we'll talk.

"Dear Mr. Horgan.

"This is about a deputy prosecuting

attorney who is taking bribes.

"Five years ago,

a person I'll call 'Noel' got arrested.

"l gave him $1 ,500 to pay somebody off.

"We went out to North Branch.

A secretary who seemed to know Noel...

"...took him into the PA's office, where

a man he could not see talked behind him.

"Ten days later, Noel went to court

and a lawyer from the PA's office...

"...told the judge that

the case was dismissed.

"l can't remember the lawyer's name.

I hope you get him.

"l hope you get Noel, too.

He has let me down."

-Unsigned.

-Unsigned.

Five years ago.

That guy must write real slow.

"Noel equals Leon."

This is Carolyn's handwriting.

Looks like she went to North Branch

to see Kenneally.

You'll love what I got from Painless.

There's this guy's semen

inside her vagina...

...but there's nothing outside.

Painless figures she didn't spend

much time on her feet after sex.

He says, normally,

he'd see the guy's little thingies...

...swimming upstream in the womb,

when he looked under the microscope.

Instead, this guy's was all dead.

Nothing went nowhere.

So Painless figures he's sterile.

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Frank Pierson

Frank Romer Pierson (May 12, 1925 – July 22, 2012) was an American screenwriter and film director. more…

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