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A lawyer is hired to defend an old college friend accused of murdering her husband.A lawyer is hired to defend an old college friend accused of murdering her husband.A lawyer is hired to defend an old college friend accused of murdering her husband.
Anne Alexander-Sieder
- Client #1
- (as Anne Alexander)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBurt Lancaster was announced for a role, but illness prevented him from appearing.
- GoofsAt approx 41 min into the film, when Sam Shepard's character is looking up the phone call records from the incident the previous night, the screen clearly says an emergency call was made at 8:45pm. It then cuts to a close up where the time the call was made has changed to 8:48pm.
- Quotes
Thelma 'T.K.' Knudsen Katwuller: This was a setup? That's what this was?
- Alternate versionsDVD from Platinum Disc is heavily censored, removing 14 minutes of footage.
Featured review
DVD version of this film has been cut
Not a bad little thriller. Sure, there are some plot holes. But the production values are decent, nothing to complain about with the direction or photography. The cast did a pretty decent job with mediocre material. I rented the DVD and found that some scenes had been cut. One of the previous commentators mentioned a scene that was not in my version. Plus, there were two brief topless scenes by Kelley Overbey that were not in this version. I like gratuitous nudity as much as the next guy, but these cuts hurt the film. One wasn't totally necessary, but definitely falls into the category of character development. The other scene was major plot exposition, and the film suffered badly for its loss. IMDb doesn't have an age for Miss Overbey, and I wonder if she may not have been eighteen at the time. That's the only reason I can think of for cutting this film into incoherence for the DVD release. Too bad.
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- smatysia
- Jul 4, 2007
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $6,413,375
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,590,439
- Aug 25, 1991
- Gross worldwide
- $6,413,375
- Runtime1 hour 44 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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