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Presumed Innocent
Prosecuting attorney Raymond Horgan assigns his chief deputy, the taciturn Rusty Sabitch, to investigate the rape and murder of colleague Carolyn Polhemus, unaware of their torrid affair. However, when he digs too deeply, he finds himself framed for the murder.
10 October 1959, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
7 February 1936, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
13 June 1932, Fort Fairfield, Maine, USA
18 February 1960, Milan, Lombardy, Italy
7 December 1965, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
25 March 1948, New York City, New York, USA
10 December 1939, Marceline, Missouri, USA
22 September 1953, Brooklyn, New York, USA
31 July 1937, Sacramento, California, USA
July 31, 2013
When you get right down to it, Presumed Innocent is really just an elaborate version of the standard courtroom drama -- souped-up Perry Mason. On the other hand, this is as good as Perry Mason gets.
July 31, 2013
A top-notch courtroom drama that will keep you guessing if you haven't read the book; even if you have, it is still a very well crafted story.
July 31, 2013
A ponderous adaptation of Scott Turow's cunningly plotted mystery novel.
July 31, 2013
Never less than engrossing.
July 31, 2013
This could have been a great movie, but, despite being a darn good yarn well told, the essential magic is somehow missing.
July 30, 2015
It presents a more intriguing and certainly more complicated portrait of cinema's historic struggle with representations of female agency and sexuality.
July 31, 2013
Pakula and the cast are excellent in the cut and thrust debates and the grilling of witnesses. At least on the surface, Presumed Innocent unfolds in the grand tradition of great courtroom drama. But nothing in Presumed Innocent is what it seems.
July 31, 2013
A thudding disappointment.
July 31, 2013
Presumed Innocent is a stylish, dark-toned movie with handsome photography (by Gordon Willis) and solid performances.
July 31, 2013
Intelligent, complex and enthralling.
July 31, 2013
Conscientiously as this movie has been made, it does not work as well as the novel did or as some of Pakula's other films have.
July 27, 2016
The film's densely constructed trial sequences are freighted with rich detail, unexpected turns and intimate insights into the criminal justice system.