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Reversal of Fortune
starring: Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Ron Silver, Annabella Sciorra, Uta Hagen
directed by: Barbet Schroeder

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790756912
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790756919
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 13, 2001
Running Time: 112 minutes
Sales Rank: 15478
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1990-10

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Jeremy Irons won the Best Actor Academy Award(R) as socialite Claus von Bulow, seeking legal exoneration in the most sensational attempted murder scandal of the 1980s. Glen Close co-stars. Year: 1990

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One of the most intriguing criminal trials of the 1980s involved Claus von Bülow, who was accused of sending his rich wife Sunny into a permanent coma with an overdose of insulin. Director Barbet Schroeder, working from Nicholas Kazan's evocative, darkly humorous script, turns the story into both a look at the lives of rich folks with too much time on their hands and a whodunit, as lawyer Alan Dershowitz (Ron Silver) prepares to defend von Bülow (Jeremy Irons) in court. Irons won an Oscar for his spooky, knowing performance, which hints at depths of degeneracy without ever putting a dent in a veneer of bored elegance. The contrast between the hard-charging Dershowitz and his eager-beaver Harvard law students and the eternally languid von Bülow adds unexpected humor. --Marshall Fine

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- Good movie!
This is a very good movie especially if you've visited the mansions at Newport Rhode Island. Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons do an excellent job questioning our minds as to whether he did it or not. You be the judge, get this movie, you won't be dissappointed!

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- This film delivers; fortunately...
`Reversal of Fortune' is an extremely well constructed look into one of the most controversial `attempted murder' trials of the 80's; that of socialite Claus von Bulow and his rich wife Sunny, who lay in a coma.

The film is told through the narrative of Sunny herself, never force-feeding the audience a manipulated conclusion but laying out the facts and allowing us to draw our own; did he or didn't he? The film follows Claus' appeal and attempt at a reversal of fortune, hoping that Professor Alan Dershowitz (who penned the non-fiction book for which the film is based) can exonerate him of the criminal charges he is facing. Looking at things from Dershowitz perspective, as well as Sunny's and even Claus' allow the audience to get a complete and full picture, even if the loose ends are never fully tied up.

I have never been drawn to legal thrillers of this kind, but all the praise that went ... Read More

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- Crime in Newport
The film opens on the cottages of the wealthy at Newport on the Rhode Island shore. Then there is a hospital with a guard at the door. A woman lies in a coma. Medical attention saved her life. Her children distrusted her husband Claus. A second coma becomes permanent. Her two children hired a lawyer and a private investigator; they found a needle used to inject insulin! Would her husband benefit greatly from her death? Who else? Claus Von Bulow was convicted of attempted murder. This film tells how this verdict was overturned on appeal. [Was Claus convicted because he was guilty of adultery? Isn't that part of the lifestyles of the rich and famous?]

Professor Alan Dershowitz is called by Claus to handle his appeal. Can he trust his client to tell the truth? [The "Perry Mason" novels give an answer.] The maid Maria tells of suspicious activities. The film shows how Dershowitz assembled a legal team to work ... Read More

Rating:

- Irons is captivating as usual
As the (possibly) murderous husband in this film, Jeremy Irons shines in his usual understated manner.

Irons can deliver a line, and a gaze. I think of the scene in which Ron Silver, playing the attorney, leans into the von Bulow car and intones: "you are such a strange man," or some such. Irons gives him a calm but sinister look, pauses, then replies evenly, "oh, you have no idea."

Fine film; don't miss it.

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