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Reversal of Fortune

Barbet Schroeder
USA - Japan - UK
Synopsis
Alan Dershowitz, a brilliant professor of law, is hired by wealthy socialite Claus von Bulow to try and overturn his two convictions for leaving his wife in a coma after having given her a shot of insulin. Dershowitz sets up a team of students in the endeavour to turn round a case that seems lost in advance, the protagonist of which is hated the length and breadth of the country.
Director
Barbet Schroeder
Screenplay
Nicholas Kazan
Photography
Luciano Tovoli
Edition
Lee Percy
Music
Mark Isham
Cast
Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, Ron Silver, Uta Hagen, Fisher Stevens
Running Time
111 m.
Country
USA - Japan - UK
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