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6.3A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer who has been AWOL for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.
Cast
- Ashley Judd as Claire Kubik
- Morgan Freeman as Charlie Grimes
- Jim Caviezel as Tom Kubik
- Amanda Peet as Jackie
- Adam Scott as Lieutenant Terrence Embry
- Bruce Davison as Brig. Gen. Bill Marks
Themes
- based on novel or book
- court
- witness
- trial
- love
- murder
- defense
- lawyer
- justice
- u.s. marine
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Ratings
IMDb
6.4/10
51,412 votes
Metacritic
48/100
- Year
- 2002
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 2 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Carl Franklin
- Screenplay by
- Yuri Zeltser Grace Cary Bickley
- Based on
- High Crimes , by Joseph Finder
- Produced by
- Arnon Milchan Janet Yang Jesse B'Franklin
- Starring
- Ashley Judd Morgan Freeman Jim Caviezel Amanda Peet Adam Scott Tom Bower
- Cinematography
- Theo van de Sande
- Edited by
- Carole Kravetz-Aykanian
- Music by
- Graeme Revell
- Production companies
- Regency Enterprises , New Regency, Manifest Film Company, Monarch Pictures
- Distributed by
- 20th Century Fox
- Release date
- April 5, 2002 ( 2002-04-05 )
- Running time
- 115 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $42 million
- Box office
- $63.8 million
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Encyclopedic overview
High Crimes is a 2002 American legal thriller film directed by Carl Franklin, based on a screenplay by Yuri Zeltser and Grace Cary Bickley that adapted Joseph Finder's 1998 novel. Starring Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman, the film follows defense attorney Claire Kubik (Judd) as she teams up with a seasoned military attorney (Freeman) to uncover a cover-up while defending her husband, Tom, who is charged with the murder of nine civilians in El Salvador and revealed to have been living under a false identity.
Plot
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