Synopsis
A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.
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Cast
- Ashley JuddClaire Kubik
- Morgan FreemanCharlie Grimes
- Jim CaviezelTom Kubik
- Amanda PeetJackie
- Adam ScottLieutenant Embry
- Bruce DavisonBrig. Gen. Bill Marks
- Tom BowerFBI Agent Mullins
- Juan Carlos HernándezMajor Hernandez
- Michael GastonMajor Waldron
- Jude CiccolellaColonel Farrell
- 75
Chicago Sun-Times
This is the second movie Judd and Freeman have made together (after "Kiss the Girls" in 1997). They're both good at projecting a kind of Southern intelligence that knows its way around the frailties of human nature. - 50
Christian Science Monitor
The story has possibilities, but you'll spot the big plot twists long before they happen, and the acting by Judd and Cavaziel is strictly by the numbers. - 50
New York Daily News
Judd has genuine movie star magnetism -- beauty, intelligence, presence and talent to spare. In the old studio days, she'd be Ingrid Bergman by now. - 50
ReelViews
The chief pleasure of High Crimes (and it's a limited one) comes from watching Morgan Freeman, who can bring a sense of integrity to even the silliest thriller. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Undermined by contrived suspense sequences, a pointless subplot involving Claire's flaky, trashy sister, and a formulaic thriller ending. - 50
New York Post
It's terribly predictable and often risible stuff. - 50
USA Today
It's no crime the movie has one or two endings too many, given that many thrillers of the past quarter-century have had the same. But Judd's latest is too harmless to be anything but a misdemeanor. - 40
Salon
High Crimes does offer good, often sharp and funny work from its two stars. But you can't fake excitement, and it's a lousy feeling to know that the best commercial movie I can point you to right now is this shallow, self-erasing nonsense.