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Reversal of Fortune

eng

videorecording

Reversal of Fortune

Originally produced by Warner Bros. in 1990

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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 vonB?low, an aristocratic, moral reprobate who's guilty of attempted murderbut found legally innocent in a stunning REVERSAL OF FORTUNE. In thisshocking, witty true story that reveals life in a wealthy American upperclass that shamelessly feels no guilt over the consequences of itsactions, a story that examines a legal system that sets the guilty free,von B?low injects his wife, Sunny (Close), with an overdose of insulin.She does not die as he planned but remains in a persistent vegetativestate. A jury finds von B?low guilty, but brilliant attorney AlanDershowitz and his team of bright young law students manage to castenough doubt on the trial to overturn the conviction--even as they focusonly on the academic legal questions and not on the terrible crime thathas been committed

live action