Reversal of Fortune

Name: Reversal of Fortune
Released: 1990-10-17
Cast: Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Ron Silver, Annabella Sciorra, Uta Hagen

Reversal of Fortune

R
1h 52m
1990

92%

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Jeremy Irons stars in an Academy Award-winning role with Glenn Close, Christine Baranski and a high-powered supporting cast as Claus von Bülow, an aristocratic, moral reprobate who's guilty of attempted murder but found legally innocent in a stunning Reversal of Fortune. In this shocking, witty true story that reveals life in a wealthy American upperclass that shamelessly feels no guilt over the consequences of its actions, a story that examines a legal system that sets the guilty free, von Bülow injects his wife, Sunny (Close), with an overdose of insulin. She does not die as he planned but remains in a persistent vegetative state. A jury finds von Bülow guilty, but brilliant attorney Alan Dershowitz and his team of bright young law students manage to cast enough doubt on the trial to overturn the conviction--even as they focus only on the academic legal questions and not on the terrible crime that has been committed.

Director:

Barbet Schroeder

Producer:

Oliver Stone, Edward R. Pressman, Michael Rauch

Writer:

Nicholas Kazan

Cast:

Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Ron Silver, Annabella Sciorra, Uta Hagen, Fisher Stevens, Jack Gilpin, Christine Baranski, Stephen Mailer, Christine Dunford, Felicity Huffman

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

92%

Critics Consensus: Featuring exceptional performances and a cunning script, Reversal of Fortune doubles as a tantalizing mystery and ruthless satire of the rich.

Reviews

El Nuevo Herald (Miami)

Rene Jordan

Reversal of Fortune is very well written, very well acted, and very well directed. [Full review in Spanish]

As distant and icy as Jeremy Irons' Oscar-winning performance as suspected murderer Claus von Bülow, but like Irons' inscrutable steeliness, it's also endlessly compelling.

Enormously entertaining.

Despite Silver's great energy, what's missing from the picture are the kind of insights necessary to explain any of the film's characters, including himself, in human terms.

TV might make cautionary stick figures of Claus and Sunny. Reversal of Fortune treats them as if they were Noel Coward lovers gone to hell in a Lamborghini.

June 17, 2020

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