Synopsis
The chilling true story of a newly married FBI poster boy assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There he is drawn into an illicit affair with an impoverished local woman who becomes his star informant. She sees in him her means of escape; instead, it's a ticket to disaster for both of them.
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Cast
- Emilia ClarkeSusan Smith
- Jack HustonMark Putnam
- Johnny KnoxvilleCash
- Thora BirchJolene
- Sophie LoweKathy Putnam
- Austin HébertRandy McCoy
- Karl GlusmanJoe-Bea
- Chris MulkeyTodd Eason
- Omar Benson MillerDenver Rhodes
- Kevin DunnBob Singer
Recommendations
- 60
Empire
What Above Suspicion lacks in flashy direction, it makes up for in strong performances and gripping true-life material to draw from. - 60
The Guardian
The stranger-than-fiction weirdness and emotional dysfunction are what’s interesting here, and the film doesn’t quite take the lid off it. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Though tech values and supporting performances (especially Knoxville's) are unimpeachable, Suspicion doesn't conjure its setting as persuasively as some of the other drug-centric rural dramas we've seen lately. - 60
Variety
Chris Gerolmo’s script isn’t at great pains to find the human factor here, and Phillip Noyce’s direction coats the whole unhappy affair in cold blue steel. - 50
Original-Cin
A reality-based hillbilly thriller that can’t decide what flavour of noir to serve up, Above Suspicion is one of those curious failures that the current appetite for home streaming often rescues from theatrical limbo. - 50
Movie Nation
This halfway-there thriller still makes an excellent showcase for Emilia Clarke, shedding whatever “Game of Thrones” baggage she has left and hinting at the dangerous places she might yet take us. - 38
RogerEbert.com
There’s more than enough meat on the bones of this true story for a film like Above Suspicion, but director Phillip Noyce can’t figure out how to tell it in a way that's more interesting than a Wikipedia entry. - 30
Screen Rant
True crime buffs could find something here, but they might be better off reading the novel it's based on. Susan Smith's story deserved to be told, but there had to have been a better way to do it.
