High Crimes (2002)

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Studio: 20th Century Fox Studio: 20th Century Fox

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: Apr 5, 2002

Running Time: 115 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman, Jim Caviezel, Adam Scott, Amanda Peet, Bruce Davison, Tom Bower, Juan Carlos Hernández, Michael Gaston, Jude Ciccolella

director: Carl Franklin

High Crimes

A happily married, successful female lawyer is shocked to learn that her husband has a hidden past as a classified military operative, and is accused of committing a heinous war crime. She must wrestle with her own doubts about his guilt as she defends him, with the help of a private investigator, in a top-secret military court where none of the rules she knows so well apply.

When a criminal lawyer must defend her husband in a military court for crimes he may or may not have committed, she ends up risking not only her career, but her life as well, in her quest to find the truth.

Story

If you've seen Jagged Edge, A Few Good Men and The Verdict, then you basically know the plot line of High Crimes. Claire Kubik (Ashley Judd), a high-powered criminal attorney, and her husband,Tom (Jim Caviezel), live an idyllic life until Tom is accosted by the FBI and taken into…