- Suspect (film)
Infobox Film
name = Suspect
writer =Eric Roth
starring =Cher Dennis Quaid Liam Neeson John Mahoney Fred Melamed Joe Mantegna
director =Peter Yates
producer =Daniel A. Sherkow
distributor =Tri-Star Pictures
released =October 23 ,1987
runtime = 121 min.
budget =
language = English
amg_id = 1:48026
imdb_id = 0094082|"Suspect" is a
1987 crime thriller/courtroom drama starringCher as Kathleen Riley,Dennis Quaid as Eddie Sanger, andLiam Neeson as Carl Wayne Anderson. Other notable cast members includeJohn Mahoney ,Joe Mantegna , andPhillip Bosco . The film was directed byPeter Yates .Plot
Set in
Washington, DC , "Suspect" centers on three disparate characters. Carl Wayne Anderson is a homeless, deaf Vietnam vet accused of murdering a federal judge's secretary, and Kathleen Riley is the beleaguered public defender assigned to his case. Anagribusiness lobbyist who normally works onCapitol Hill , Eddie Sanger is made a member of the jury and begins investigating the details of the murder himself, eventually teaming up with Riley to solve the case.Noted for something of a
deus ex machina ending, the film's climactic scene (in which the actual murderer is revealed) was panned byRoger Ebert , whose review noted that it is "as if an Agatha Christie novel evaluated six suspects in a British country house, and then in the last chapter we discover the killer was a guy from next door." [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19871023/REVIEWS/710230304/1023]
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