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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
1,850 Views


He's got blood type A.

My very own.

I thought of that. But you got a kid.

Anything from hair or fiber?

No hair or skin fragments under her nails.

Carolyn would've fought back.

Maybe she was playing sex games

with the wrong guy.

The rope is K-Mart, Sears, Walgreen's.

You name it.

They found carpet fibers

from some other location. Zorak V.

It's only the biggest seller.

You call the Fingerprint Lab

on the bar glass?

Oh, I forgot.

You are a class-A f***-up, you know?

They ain't going to expedite it for me.

I got the phone company printout

on her apartment.

I notice that one of the numbers

that comes up is yours a number of times.

At the office.

We were working cases together.

No, she's calling your home.

She never called me at home.

I made these calls...

...to Barbara from Carolyn's apartment.

"Late again, kid."

"This trial's a b*tch.

I'll catch dinner in town."

I'd just as soon you'd let it go.

If Barbara sees a phone company

subpoena, now, she'll bust a gut.

Under the circumstances,

if you don't mind...

...l'd appreciate it.

I gave Barbara...

...enough pain.

Polhemus was bad news.

Know what they're calling you

and your partner downtown?

Spare me.

"Mission lmpossible."

Guerasch, bring that sh*t in my office.

So you're figuring what? The guy

she was having cocktails with did her?

I figure it was somebody who knew

what he wanted it to look like.

Cop. PA. A private dick.

Remember that lady PA

who was here four months ago?

Yeah, nice set of lungs.

This kid's gonna make a copper.

Never forgets a bra size.

He wants to know

what she was looking for.

She was looking for someone

by the name of Noel.

It took me a week to find this crap.

Five years back,

they booked 1 50 a day then.

Public indecency.

They were cleaning out the faggots.

Back when Raymond got some balls

for a day and a half.

-She find anything?

-I don't know.

When I gave these files to her,

they were in nice order.

The b*tch just trashed them.

She never gave a sh*t

about anybody else's work.

One's completely missing. Look.

See right here? It skips a number.

Tommy Molto been looking at these?

What does Molto have to do with this?

Would there still be a court file

on this case?

That far back, it'd have to be in storage

on microfilm by now.

You don't want to say

what this is about, maybe?

Gee, Lionel, I can't.

She used to ask about you, you know.

Five, six years ago when she worked

out here as a probation officer.

-Five years ago I didn't know her.

-Sure you did.

The night you brought the Night Saints in.

You were hot stuff. A regular f***ing hero.

Breaking the meanest guy

this side of Watts.

There was a lot of talk

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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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