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Suspect, 1987

Starring: Dennis Quaid, Cher

Directed by: Peter Yates

Written by: Eric Roth

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 121 min

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Rating:6.5

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Suspect can be described as mind bending, clever, and suspenseful. The plot revolves around a political conspiracy, a legal investigation, and a dedicated lawyer. The main genres are thriller, mystery, and crime. In terms of style, Suspect involves twists and turns and is talky. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It is set, at least in part, in an urban environment. Suspect is located in Washington DC. It takes place in the 1980s. Note that it involves violent content.

Summary of Suspect

Cher stars in this chilling courtroom thriller as Kathleen Riley, an exhausted Washington, D.C., public defender who is saddled with an impossible case: clearing accused murderer Carl Wayne Anderson (Liam Neeson), a deaf-mute vagrant Vietnam vet. A young clerk typist (Katie O'Hare) has been found dead, a Supreme Court Justice has taken his own life, and Anderson was found just footsteps away from the young woman's body. All the odds seem to be against Kathleen until one of the jurors, Eddie Sanger (Dennis Quaid), a seductive, if rather slippery, Washington lobbyist, decides to help her by searching for clues himself. Determined to prove the innocence of her wrongfully accused client, Kathleen accepts Eddie's help, forming a top-secret and very illegal partnership. In between bouts of snappy verbal sparring, the unlikely team uncovers a sinister conspiracy that puts both their lives in danger and reveals a highly unlikely suspect at the bottom of an extremely well hidden Washington scandal. Dennis Quaid and Cher are a seductive and witty team in director Peter Yates's entertaining murder mystery that combines cutthroat action with a stylish and imaginative puzzle of clues.

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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	23 October 1987
Runtime:	121 min

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Dennis Quaid

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05.September.2010
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by: ColumboFan
ColumboFan rated this movie0/10

Your honor, I object to this movie. "Sustained counselor, I want to see where you're going with this." Firstly, the idea of Cher playing a lawyer seemed silly to me - it's why I skipped this for so many years - but she actually does okay. She frumps it up playing a liberal public defender stereotype and it's not too much of a stretch. She acquitted herself. If anything, Dennis Quaid was more miscast as a corporate lobbyist. He spits out the K Street dialogue he's given here a little too fast. He's a good actor but he looks a little uncomfortable in a power suit. Of course there's a pointless love story subplot tacked on with no chemistry between the two, but that wasn't my major problem with this movie. I submit that courtroom dramas live or die in the courthouse scenes and this one is just too blatantly cliched. There's the left-handed defendant, right-handed murderer thing which we've all seen. At another point John Mahoney's judge actually says to Cher, "If you pull another stunt like that I'll cite you for contempt so fast it will make your head spin." I could mouth it with him. Nearly every line in the courtroom scenes has been lifted from another movie or a Perry Mason episode. I think one scene was even ripped-off of "The Brady Bunch", but the writing was so lazy I thought they must have a helleva twist ending up their sleeve. There had to be a reason this movie attracted such A-listers. Well, yeah, there is a twist, but it's not a very good one and I'm guessing that at least half the audience will have seen it coming. I did and I'm not that smart - it was just a matter of eliminating the obvious. So, to sum up, I honestly didn't go into this movie expecting "The Verdict", but I thought it would be better than this. I'm a sucker for courtroom dramas - I rarely give them less than 3 stars - but this one was just phoned in. With that, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I rest my case. Two stars. This court is now in recess. Now bailiff, wack his pee pee.

05.September.2010
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by: ColumboFan

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