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6.3A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer who has been 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.
Released: 2002-04-05115 minDir: Carl FranklinDrama, Mystery, Thriller, CrimeBudget: $42.0MBox office: $63.8M
Cast
- Ashley Judd as Claire Kubik
- Morgan Freeman as Charlie Grimes
- Jim Caviezel as Tom Kubik
- Amanda Peet as Jackie
- Adam Scott as Lieutenant Terrence Embry
- Bruce Davison as Brig. Gen. Bill Marks
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High Crimes is a 2002 American legal thriller film directed by Carl Franklin, based on a screenplay by Yuri Zeltser and Grace Cary Bickley that adapted Joseph Finder's 1998 novel. Starring Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman, the film follows defense attorney Claire Kubik (Judd) as she teams up with a seasoned military attorney (Freeman) to uncover a cover-up while defending her husband, Tom, who is charged with the murder of nine civilians in El Salvador and revealed to have been living under a false identity.
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2000s legal thriller films2002 American films2002 crime thriller films2002 English-language films2002 films20th Century Fox filmsAmerican crime thriller filmsAmerican legal thriller filmsFilms about war crimes trialsFilms based on American crime novelsFilms based on military novelsFilms directed by Carl Franklin