Reversal of Fortune

United States, Japan, United Kingdom

1990

111 Min

Color

1.85:1

English

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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PROD Edward R. Pressman, Oliver Stone

SCR Alan Dershowitz, Nicholas Kazan

CAST Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Ron Silver, Annabella Sciorra, Uta Hagen, Stephen Mailer, Fisher Stevens, Jack Gilpin, Christine Baranski, Felicity Huffman, Lisa Gay Hamilton, JD Cullum, Julie Hagerty

MUSIC Josh Clayton-Felt, Joseph Hooven, Mark Isham, Michael Ward, Jerry Winn

Toronto, Telluride

Synopsis

In this tauntingly ambiguous courtroom drama, the enigmatic Claus von Bülow (Jeremy Irons) stands accused of putting his wife, Sunny (Glenn Close), into a perpetual coma with an insulin overdose. Claus hires hard-charging attorney Alan Dershowitz (Ron Silver), who scrambles to defend his client — with help from some impassioned Harvard law students — while Sunny narrates flashbacks that shed light on the events that lead to her condition. –Netflix

Director

Barbet Schroeder

Barbet Schroeder’s Swiss geologist father was on assignment in Iran when he was born. After a globe-trotting childhood, Schroeder was educated at the Sorbonne; then, like half the under-30 population of France (or so it seemed), he became a movie critic. Brief jobs as a jazz concert producer and news photographer followed before Schroeder went to work as an assistant for one of his role models, French director Jean-Luc Godard. In 1964, the 22-year-old Schroeder set up his own film production company, Les Films du Losange. Among the many prominent pictures produced by Schroeder include director Eric Rohmer’s “Moral Tales” La Collectioneuse (1966), My Night at Maud’s (1969), and Claire’s Knee (1970). Schroeder himself turned director with 1969’s More, gaining critical attention with several unorthodox documentaries. With the American film Barfly (1987), Schroeder established himself as a prime purveyor of “slice of life” drama — albeit entertaining enough to please the crowd. Oscar nominated… read more