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Though Hackman and Freeman turn in solid performances, Under Suspicion moves at a plodding rate and has a disappointing ending.
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Under Suspicion Ending, Explained
‘Under Suspicion’ is a crime thriller that follows a murder investigation where the cops have locked down their suspect. The only thing they need now is a confession and the case would be officially over. As the interrogation begins, a lot of secrets and lies come to the fore, and we experience a tug of war regarding the guilt of the suspect. Nothing is as it seems in this case, and by the end, a shocking revelation changes everything about it. The movie cleverly plays with the suspicion of the characters and the audience to deliver an engaging crime drama. Here’s what the ending means. If you haven’t seen the film yet, come back to this article later. SPOILERS AHEAD
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Henry Hearst is on his way to a charity event when he receives a call from Victor to come down to the police station and talk over his statement regarding a murder investigation. It is supposed to be a ten-minute meeting but stretches to an all-out probe into his personal life. Bit by bit, his worst secrets and thoughts are dug out and while Victor pushes to prove his guilt, Henry claims that he is completely innocent.
Is Henry the killer?
One of the great things about ‘Under Suspicion’ is how well it plays with our intrigue regarding Henry’s guilt. It keeps moving back and forth to refute and then support his innocence, making us question if we can trust his claims or the judgment of a seasoned police officer.
The interrogation starts out with his lies coming to the fore. He is an upstanding member of the community and is due to deliver a speech at the charity event to raise money for the kids who have been hit by a recent hurricane. This starts to outline the case in his favor, where even Victor’s superior doesn’t want to believe that Henry is the one they might be looking for. In contrast to this is Victor, and his junior Owens, who believes that Henry’s lies are enough to show that he is the murderer. Because Victor is a good person, and not hot-headed like Owens, we tend to believe that he might be right about this. Also, why wouldn’t we believe Morgan Freeman !
But then, there is no concrete proof against Henry. There is no DNA evidence, he didn’t leave anything behind at the crime scene to link it to him. All the cops have is circumstantial evidence. This is where the interrogation goes into the moral standing of the characters and makes us question what we believe. We discover that Henry seduced his much-younger wife when she was still a teenager. Through her, it is revealed that the reason she might as well file for divorce is that she found him seducing her niece, a teenager.
Henry’s visits to the prostitutes in a shady area of San Juan and his particular liking for young girls doesn’t do him any favors either. On top of that, the sheer number of loopholes in his story, and the lies regarding his acquaintance with the victims, convinces us that he is the killer. When the photos of the victims are found at his house, Henry relents and confesses to the crime. And then, the twist arrives.
It turns out that while Victor and Owens were busy with the interrogation, another girl was killed in the same manner as the previous victims. Only this time, the cops caught the killer in the act and arrested him just when Henry had confessed to the crime. This means that Henry had been telling the truth all along, and this makes us reconsider our thought process regarding the compartmentalization of morality and guilt when it comes to solving a crime.
Is Henry a pervert? He refuses to call himself one, but considering all the things he told the cops about himself, he just might be. But just because he likes young girls doesn’t automatically make him a criminal. This does put him in a suspicion whenever he would be found around young girls; for example, because Chantal is aware of this inclination of his, she doesn’t think twice before assuming that he is trying to seduce Camille. It turns out that he hadn’t been lying about what happened that day and that Chantal had misunderstood the situation. Nonetheless, it is much easier to suspect him, because we already know what he’s like.
The only wrong thing that happens in this film is that the cops are not able to separate their personal opinion of Henry to the actual crime. The more they find out about his life, the more it convinces them of his guilt. Instead of using some sureshot evidence to form a theory, they form their version of the events first and then try to find the evidence to prove it. And that’s their biggest failure.
The interrogation of Henry and Chantal and the search of their house leads to the strings that tie Henry to both the victims and convinces Victor that his suspicions were right. They get the confession from Henry, who realizes that his wife hates him so much that she helped the cops come up with the evidence to prove that he is the murderer. However, just when he confesses, Victor discovers that the real murderer has been caught. While this washes all the accusations off of him, Henry’s life has been changed forever.
Chantal realizes how she let her anger towards him almost ruin him entirely. Feeling guilty, she briefly considers killing herself, but then goes back to Henry to ask for forgiveness. But he is too dejected to forgive her now. Whatever trust had remained in their marriage is gone, and there is no repairing the damage that the interrogation has done. While Henry and Chantal ponder over their situation, Victor thinks about the damage he has done and how he completely went off track and almost framed an innocent man for a heinous crime.
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A private detective (Liam Neeson) is accused of murdering his wife. Laura San Giacomo. Selina: Alphonsia Emmanuel. Frank: Kenneth Cranham. Hazel: Maggie O'Neill. Written and directed by Simon Moore.
A morose thriller set during the 1950s in the gloomy British seaside town of Brighton, UNDER SUSPICION is so suffused with tawdry bitterness that it's unpleasant to watch, which is perhaps why it failed to find many fans among critics and moviegoers. Tony Aaron (Liam Neeson) is a cop who can't keep his pants zipped, and the inevitable trouble ensues. While staking out a gangster's house with his partner, Aaron slips in for a bit of fun with the gangster's blowsy moll, Hazel (Maggie O'Neil). The gangster comes home unexpectedly and all hell breaks loose; when the dust settles, Aaron is bounced off the force and barely avoids prosecution. He becomes a private detective and makes a scant living doing divorce work. The punitive divorce laws of the period require proof of infidelity as grounds; Aaron's specialty is arranging compromising photographs, with Hazel, now his wife, as the other woman. It's a sleazy but predictable living, so imagine Aaron's surprise when he bursts into a hotel room, camera in hand, only to find Hazel and his client, a wealthy American painter, slaughtered. The painter's body has been mutilated as well: his thumb, with which he had signed his paintings, is gone. Aaron's old police pal Frank (Kenneth Cranham) is placed in charge of the investigation, which at first revolves around two women: the painter's cool widow, Selina (Alphonsia Emmanuel), and his alluring student-turned-mistress, Angeline (Laura San Giacomo). Each owns many of the dead man's valuable artworks (more valuable than ever since his death) and Aaron suspects a plot to forge more, using the amputated thumb to make them appear indisputably real. The glamorous Angeline seems the more likely murder suspect, which is no doubt why Aaron takes up with her. To his surprise, he finds himself falling in love. Suspicion soon falls on Aaron himself; the victims were killed with his gun, which is recovered near the scene, and though he has no good motive, he also has a flawed alibi. The circumstantial evidence seems increasingly damning, particularly after a local man (a married homosexual tormented by a blackmailer) commits suicide and leaves a note naming Aaron as the killer. Aaron is arrested and tried, found guilty and sentenced to die. Shortly before the execution, Frank makes a shocking discovery: the missing thumb, preserved in alcohol, hidden amidst Angeline's paints. Frank's new evidence saves Aaron and condemns Angeline, who goes to jail protesting her innocence. In a brief epilogue, viewers learn that Aaron and Selina were co-conspirators in the painter's murder. She masterminded the plan to forge her husband's paintings, and he both committed the murder and framed Angeline. The two escape justice in sunny Florida, far from the dreary beaches of Brighton. Although not an altogether successful film, UNDER SUSPICION does convey a palpable sense of time and place. In its delineation of the sexual repression and hypocrisy of the late 50s, the depressing architecture of decaying seaside towns, the sense that buried secrets and unspoken truths are poisoning the very soil and blighting everyone who walks on it, this 1992 release recalls such often underestimated films as Basil Dearden's SAPPHIRE and VICTIM. Writer-director Simon Moore manages both to keep the complicated plot moving and to give his characters plenty of room in which to assert themselves. Disappointingly, the film's weakest performance comes from Laura San Giacomo; though certainly beautiful, she fails to convey the sense of mystery Angeline requires. Rather than a femme fatale, San Giacomo seems too much like the girl next door in borrowed soignee clothes; her performance comes together in only one brief--though extemely good--scene, following Angeline's conviction for murder. Walking in the prison yard, dressed in shapeless grey, she asks Aaron to tell her the truth, to whisper it in her ear. Though we don't hear what he says, the looks that wash over her face are painfully evocative. The craggily handsome Neeson, on the other hand, is phenomenally good. He dares to allow Tony Aaron to be unlikable--vain, self-centered and crass--and creates a far more interesting character than the usual down-at-the-heels-but-good-at-heart rogue of a private eye American audiences have come to expect. Aaron is a weak and unprincipled man, and his sordid job has magnified his faults, turning him into the worst possible version of himself. On balance, UNDER SUSPICION is an underrated thriller, well worth the effort required to shake the depression it induces. (Violence, nudity, sexual situations.)
Under Suspicion Review
12 Jan 2001
100 minutes
Under Suspicion
Although a screen original, this has the pleasantly musty feel of those 1950s British thrillers Penguin used to publish with green covers and which get serialised on Woman's Hour from time to time. In 1959, sleazy private eye Neeson fakes compromising photographs for divorce cases. His latest scam turns sour when he barges into a Brighton hotel room and finds his latest client, a world-famous painter, and his wife-accomplice bloodily shot dead. It looks as if someone is framing him for the murders, and so - aided by trusty policeman pal Cranham - he delves deeper, and gets involved with the dead man's yummy mistress (San Giacomo), which only makes things look even worse when the case comes to trial. Meanwhile, the painter's missing thumb, vital in authenticating his potentially valuable canvasses, is lurking around somewhere, and it's obvious that the painter's non-grieving widow, a suavely untrustworthy lawyer, and a wonky cigarette lighter have something to do with the case.
Under Suspicion is one of those mysteries - No Way Out was another - that's fun when it's being mysterious, and ever-so-slightly disappointing when it gets down to solutions. Neeson, in a fur-lined leather jacket, and San Giacomo, in a hat that looks like a feathery flying saucer, are fine hard-boiled protagonists, and Kenneth Cranham was obviously born too late, nature having equipped him perfectly to play honest coppers in Edgar Wallace Presents . . . B movies. The settings - with Portmerion glimpsed as an unlikely adjunct to 1950s Brighton - and the styles are pleasantly old-fashioned, which allows for some melodramatic excesses, including the best-ever dash-with-vital-evidence-to-save-a-man-from-the-gallows sequence in the cinema. However, the mystery develops rather wonkily, with the hero spending too much time in a cell as his best friend takes over the detective work, and the options for a surprise ending running out a good quarter of an hour before one comes along. Still, although you might feel let down at the end, the rest of the trip is fun.
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Under Suspicion: Uncovering The Wesphael Case’ On Netflix, A Docuseries About A Belgian Politician On Trial For Killing His Wife
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On October 31, 2013, Véronique Pirotton was found dead in a hotel room in Ostend, Belgium. Her husband, Bernard Wesphael, claimed it was suicide. He went on trial for manslaughter for her death, for which he was eventually acquitted. Because of the fact that this was the only the second time a member of parliament went on trial for his wife’s death, a media frenzy was sparked in Belgium. The story of the case is examined in Under Suspicion: Uncovering The Wesphael Case .
UNDER SUSPICION: UNCOVERING THE WESPHAEL CASE : STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?
Opening Shot: Mons, Belgium. October 6, 2016. The day of the verdict in the manslaughter trial of Bernard Wesphael, a member of the Belgian parliament. There are people lined up down the hall.
The Gist: The first episode dives right into the case, talking to Pirotton’s sister and cousin about the marital problems she was having with Wesphael, about how the pair married quickly and that he didn’t seem like her type. Pirotton decided to get some alone time in Ostend while Wesphael looked for an apartment where he could live while they were separated.
It’s then when Wesphael appears on screen, and picks up the story from there, explaining that he joined her in Ostend and the two of them made passionate love that night. Was he lying? Not according to “earwitnesses” who were staying in the rooms next door and below where Wesphael and Pirotton were staying. If Wesphael is to be believed, the next day Pirotton went back and forth in emotions between Wesphael and a lover she was texting with named Oswald. He also sent him one message or multiple messages, depending on who you ask, but the message was interpreted as a threat.
After having a few too many, Wesphael carries Pirotton back to their room, where they have a row that the earwitnesses describe as sounding very distressing. He falls asleep, then wakes to see Pirotton sprawled on the bathroom floor with a bag on her head.
What Shows Will It Remind You Of? More or less any true crime series on Netflix, but this time the accused is speaking out instead of the accuser.
Our Take: Creators Georges Huercano and Pascal Vrebos and director Alain Brunard took a different approach with Under Suspicion: Uncovering The Wesphael Case than most recent true crime docuseries directors have. Instead of building with backstory, to try to inform audiences about the case’s central characters, they jump right into the case. Doing so makes the first episode more eventful than most in this genre, but it also makes things a bit more confusing, too.
Now, if we lived in Belgium or some of its neighbors, we might have had more foreknowledge of the Wesphael case, and would have been able to make this leap with the filmmakers. But coming in from the outside, it’s hard to grab the thread of who Wesphael is, what his personality is, and why the much-younger Priotton fell for him. It’s also hard to discern where the relationship went wrong. From Wesphael’s accounts, it felt like just a matter of Priotton being torn between him and Oswald. But her relatives paint a bleaker picture.
That’s the rub here. We’re going to need to find out more about the background of the case before we can get into the investigation and trial. Perhaps that’s what the filmmakers’ intention is. We see Wesphael, an egoist at best and a narcissist at worst, praising how nice he looked when he went to meet his wife in Ostend, despite her insistence that she wanted space. Priotton writes a long letter to her son Victor about separating from his stepfather, but then tells Wesphael that she’s off birth control because she wants to have a baby with him (at least according to him).
So we have some claims of abuse and other serious accusations from Priotton’s family and then a lengthy testimony from Wesphael that sounds more like a romance novel than anything real. We also have the smarminess of listening to neighboring guests talking about the sex noises they made, then the loud screaming that followed. It all feels unseemly and not very cohesive. But Wesphael has such a raging ego we want to see him explain this incident away for the entire five-episode series.
Sex and Skin: Except for the hotel neighbors talking about all the “pleasuring,” there was nothing.
Parting Shot: One of the earwitnesses said something thuddingly obvious: “Something happened in that room to cause that woman to die. And I’d like to hear from him his side of the story.
Sleeper Star: We felt bad for the kids of both sets of earwitnesses who had to hear these odd and off-putting noises coming from the walls of an old hotel that seems to have pretty thin walls, floors and ceilings.
Most Pilot-y Line: Wesphael dominates the last 20 or so minutes of the 35-minute first episode, and that felt completely unbalanced to us.
Our Call: STREAM IT. Despite our reservations, Under Suspicion: Uncovering The Wesphael Case introduces us to someone whose ego is so immense it makes our just-departed president look like a shrinking violet in comparison. And we’re hooked.
Should you stream or skip the docuseries #UnderSuspicion : Uncovering The Wesphael Case on @netflix ? #SIOSI — Decider (@decider) March 24, 2021
Joel Keller ( @joelkeller ) writes about food, entertainment, parenting and tech, but he doesn’t kid himself: he’s a TV junkie. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Salon, RollingStone.com, VanityFair.com, Fast Company and elsewhere.
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(H, LLL, V, SS, N, A, D, MM) Mild humanist worldview about a failing marriage & sordid sexual issues, with little redeeming content; 20 obscenities & 10 profanities; some brief violence such as two men scuffle, arguments & implied murders with images of corpses, but nothing really gruesome; implied prostitution & pedophilia, & references to sexually dysfunctional marriage; upper & rear female nudity; alcohol use; smoking; and, overzealous police detective violates superior’s orders, poor marital role models & sordid adult topics.
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UNDER SUSPICION is a relentless examination of a tragic marriage under the spotlight of an intense police investigation about a couple of murdered young girls. Though the performances are strong and detailed, there’s not enough here, ultimately, to really hold one’s interest. The ending is weak and unbelievable, even though it seems to be almost the whole reason behind making this movie.
In the story, set in Puerto Rico, Gene Hackman plays wealthy tax attorney Henry Hearst. Police Captain Victor Benezet, played by Morgan Freeman, pulls Henry away from an important fund-raising speech. Victor has a few questions for Henry about Henry’s recent discovery of the body of a murdered young girl. As the interrogation proceeds, Henry begins to look more and more guilty of the crimes. Also, Henry’s estranged marriage with his beautiful young wife, Chantal (Monica Belluci), comes under the intense scrutiny of the relentless police captain.
The acting by Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman is strong in UNDER SUSPICION, but there’s a twist at the end of the movie which is unbelievably weak. Also, the motive for the crimes appears to be pedophilia, which leads to all sorts of sordid revelations about the dysfunctional sex life and marriage of Hackman’s character. There’s really no reason, therefore, to sit through the movie other than to admire the acting abilities of the two male leads, old pros though they may be.
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Under Suspicion , a remake of Claude Miller's 1981 French fave Garde Vue , uses a Caribbean festival as a backdrop for a mesmerizing mind teaser about a police captain (Morgan Freeman) who tries to goad a prominent tax attorney (Gene Hackman) into confessing that he raped and murdered two little girls. Hackman and Freeman will pin you to your seat.
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Released twenty years ago, Under Suspicion saw big names like Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman and Monica Bellucci take to the big screen in this gripping American-French thriller. Set in the town of San Juan in Puerto Rico and directed by Stephen Hopkins, the film is based on the 1981 French production Garde à Vue and the 1970s British novel Brainwash by John Wainwright.
Hackman plays Henry Hearst, a tax lawyer who seems to have it all – the perfect young wife, the big house on the corner, the success of his career as a lawyer and the respect and admiration from members of the public. Freeman is Victor Benezet, a police captain who isn’t quite as fortuitous as Henry. His wife has custody of his two daughters who live back in the US whilst he lives alone in a cheap back-alley apartment.
At the start of the film we see Victor investigating the murders of two 12 year old girls, for which Henry is the “principal witness to a crime scene”. Henry and Victor seem like friends who go way back, but during a phone call when Victor asks his old friend to “pop by” the station to go over his statement, (he claimed to have found one of the bodies the day before), things start to turn sour as accusations and suspicions form. As the night goes on, Henry gets more and more frustrated as he’s supposed to be giving a very important speech across the road at a fundraiser for a hurricane relief charity. But instead he is kept at the police station by Victor and Detective Felix Owens, (played by Thomas Jane), and is bombarded with question after question. Victor, who is under pressure from his boss as he wants Henry to give the speech, escorts Henry to the fundraiser. Once he’s finished, Henry soon enough finds himself back at the station and once again under the firing line.
During the multiple scenes where Henry is getting interrogated, it feels intimate, as if you’re part of the case, in the courtroom, becoming a jury member and you’ve been told to watch and listen. As a ‘jury member’, you get that feeling almost automatically that this man is guilty. All he seems to be doing is telling lie after lie after lie. He doesn’t appear to be telling a single truth, changing his story constantly. But that’s what the writers want you to think…. Is it that obvious that he committed these crimes? Or is there another story to it all?
For someone who hadn’t seen this film until now, it was intriguing to see the great names of Freeman, Hackman and Bellucci at a younger age. Bellucci of course plays Chantal Hearst, the elegant and beautiful younger wife to Henry. She’s quiet but alluring, especially for someone who doesn’t say much until an hour into the film. At first it seems she is just there to look pretty, a sort of prize for Henry to show off. She is after all a beautiful woman married to a man 25 years her senior. However, it’s quite clear that her marriage with Henry isn’t as perfect as some people might think it to be, when there’s a confession later on at the police station that they no longer sleep in the same bed.
The direction and cinematography are brilliant and creative, especially the way the camera is always focused so closely on the actors, enforcing that feeling of intimacy. It’s clever also how the narration follows not only the present day in the police station, but as the story of the past gets told (and when Henry goes through his alibi), we are transported back with the present day characters. This is achieved through various scenes and settings, whether that be on a bench overlooking the ocean, jogging through a park or checking out prostitutes on a dark corner of an alleyway. We too are walking alongside them as the story of the past unfolds and the mystery of Henry’s whereabouts are revealed. Shocking revelations unravel throughout the film, leaving you wanting more as each stone is unturned and each secret is spilled. The anticipation is intense as you watch this game of cat and mouse between Henry and Victor.
Watching Hackman, Freeman and Bellucci is enjoyable as these stars are considered some of the greats in Hollywood. Yet they’re not the only ones who shine, as Thomas Jane thrives in the role of Detective Felix Owens. Not only does he (every now and then) throw comedy into the mix when all you feel is the intensity of it all, but you see his wit and passion for the case coming across brilliantly as he outshines the others from time to time. Some feat when you consider who he’s up against. The contrast between the blaring loud music and the bold dance moves of the celebrations for the San Sebastián Festival outside the police station contrasts successfully with the dramatic investigation of the rape and murder of the two young girls. It juxtaposes the storylines – the festival, the charity fundraiser and the murder investigations.
The film is 110 minutes long but perhaps there’s a few weaker scenes which could’ve been cut to make the film flow even better. The script for the most part is clever but feels a bit lacklustre at times. You feel as though you just want them to hurry it up a little so you can get to the conclusion, not out of boredom but out of intrigue and anticipation – wanting to know ‘who dunnit’. Overall the film is thrilling, exciting and makes the audience question their own assumptions of the characters. But the ending is a disappointment and a bit of an anti-climax. Just as we were about to get justice, the rug gets pulled out from under us, evoking a sense of dissatisfaction, and ultimately thinking ‘what the f***!’
Twenty years on, Under Suspicion strangely still holds up and doesn’t feel dated at all. Those seeing it for the first time should expect mystery, suspense and tension throughout, which is exactly what you’d expect from a classic thriller, if nothing else.
Under Suspicion is available on Digital HD July 31 and on Amazon Prime August 3rd
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49% Tomatometer 45 Reviews 48% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings "Under Suspicion" is an intense, psychological thriller, with veteran Police Captain Victor Benezet squaring off against prominent tax ...
Under Suspicion: Directed by Stephen Hopkins. With Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Monica Bellucci. A wealthy attorney in San Juan comes to the police station for "10 minutes" of follow-up questions to finding a 12-year-old girl's body in a park. Another young girl was also raped and murdered weeks earlier and the evidence points to him.
'Under Suspicion' is a crime thriller that follows a murder investigation where the cops have locked down their suspect. The only thing they need now is a confession and the case would be officially over. As the interrogation begins, a lot of secrets and lies come to the fore, and we experience a tug of war regarding the guilt of the suspect.
Liam Neeson is "Under Suspicion" for murdering his wife and a client in this 1991 little known film also starring Laura San Giacomo. This is one of those films one rents and all too rarely realizes that they have found an unsung treasure. Set in England in 1959-60, Neeson plays an police officer, Tony Aaron.
8/10. A potential spellbinder and one of Hackman's best performances. =G= 2 January 2001. Most of this dialogue-intensive film takes place in an office in a Puerto Rican Police Department with a top detective (Freeman) grilling a wealthy attorney (Hackman) about the rape/murders of young girls.
Under Suspicion is a 2000 American-French thriller film directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Monica Bellucci and Thomas Jane.The film is based on the 1981 French film Garde à vue and the British novel Brainwash (1979), written by John Wainwright.It was screened out of competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.
1 h 50 m. Summary An intense, psychological thriller, with veteran Police Captain Victor Benezet (Freeman) squaring off against prominent tax attorney Henry Hearst (Hackman) -- two life-hardened and well-matched opponents motivated by reasons more complex and personal than the pursuit of duty or the defense of reputation. (Lions Gate Films) Crime.
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Under Suspicion Reviews. A private detective (Liam Neeson) is accused of murdering his wife. Laura San Giacomo. Selina: Alphonsia Emmanuel. Frank: Kenneth Cranham. Hazel: Maggie O'Neill. Written ...
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This week's reviews. More about Under Suspicion. Under Suspicion Philip French Sunday 14 January 2001 ... which acknowledges both Wainwright's novel and Miller's movie as its sources, shifts the ...
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Cannily set in downtown Brighton on the very brink of the '60s, Under Suspicion is the sort of polished British crime melodrama that might have been made in the '50s with Richard Todd and some ...
UNDER SUSPICION is a relentless examination of a tragic marriage under the spotlight of an intense police investigation about a couple of murdered young girls. Though the performances are strong and detailed, there's not enough here, ultimately, to really hold one's interest. The ending is weak and unbelievable, even though it seems to be ...
Under Suspicion, a remake of Claude Miller's 1981 French fave Garde Vue, uses a Caribbean festival as a backdrop for a mesmerizing mind teaser about a police captain (Morgan Freeman) who tries to ...
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Under Suspicion is available on Digital HD July 31 and on Amazon Prime August 3rd. REVIEW OVERVIEW. Under Suspicion. SUMMARY. Overall the film is thrilling, exciting and makes the audience ...
Under Suspicion works less as an absorbing story than an absorbing work of craftsmanship. A thriller in the spirit of Sleuth and The Usual Suspects, it depends mainly on the talents of its actors, who spend the entire film locked in a room and trading verbal barbs with each other.It's lucky enough to have two of the best in the leads -- Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman -- who apparently picked ...
The switch to Henry Hearst (Gene Hackman) breaking down and confessing seems sudden. Yes I've seen plenty of documentaries where people were coerced into false confessions. But the depiction of it here seems abrupt. Either it was was straight false confession. Or Henry caved into the pressure while also realising his wife thought he was guilty ...