Reversal of Fortune Poster Image
Rated
R
Runtime 111 min
Ratings
66% TMDB
92% critics Rotten Tomatoes
78% audience Rotten Tomatoes
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Genre Biography, Drama, Mystery
Release 11/09/90
Actors Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, Ron Silver
Directors Barbet Schroeder
Alan Dershowitz a brilliant professor of law is hired by wealthy socialite Claus von Bulow to attempt to overturn his two convictions for attempted murder of his extremely wealthy wife. Based on a true story the film concentrates not on the trial like other legal thrillers, but on the preparatory work that Dershowitz and his students put in as they attempt to disprove the prosecution's case and achieve the Reversal of Fortune of the title.
Genre Biography, Drama, Mystery
Release 11/09/90
Actors Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, Ron Silver
Directors Barbet Schroeder
Alan Dershowitz a brilliant professor of law is hired by wealthy socialite Claus von Bulow to attempt to overturn his two convictions for attempted murder of his extremely wealthy wife. Based on a true story the film concentrates not on the trial like other legal thrillers, but on the preparatory work that Dershowitz and his students put in as they attempt to disprove the prosecution's case and achieve the Reversal of Fortune of the title.