Movie
High Crimes
Overview
A 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.
Details
- Release date
- 2002-04-05
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Genres
- Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Monarch Pictures, New Regency Pictures, Manifest Film Company, Epsilon Motion Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Ashley Judd as Claire Kubik
- Morgan Freeman as Charlie Grimes
- Jim Caviezel as Tom Kubik
- Adam Scott as Lieutenant Terrence Embry
- Amanda Peet as Jackie
- Bruce Davison as General Bill Marks
- Tom Bower as FBI Agent Mullins
- Juan Carlos Hernández as Major James Hernandez
- Michael Gaston as Major Waldron
- Jude Ciccolella as Colonel Farrell
- Emilio Rivera as Salvadoran Man
- Michael Shannon as Troy Abbott
Crew
- Carl Franklin - Director
- Yuri Zeltser - Screenplay
- Grace Cary Bickley - Screenplay
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