Movie
Suspect
Overview
When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and mute. But when public defender Kathleen Riley is assigned to his case, she begins to believe that Anderson may actually be innocent. Juror Eddie Sanger, a Washington lobbyist, agrees, and together the pair begins their own investigation of events.
Details
- Release date
- 1987-10-23
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- ML Delphi Premier Productions, TriStar Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Cher as Kathleen Riley
- Dennis Quaid as Eddie Sanger
- Liam Neeson as Carl Wayne Anderson
- John Mahoney as Judge Matthew Bishop Helms
- Joe Mantegna as Charlie Stella
- Philip Bosco as Paul Gray
- E. Katherine Kerr as Grace Comisky
- Fred Melamed as Morty Rosenthal
- Bill Cobbs as Judge Franklin
- Richard Gant as Everett Bennett
- Lisbeth Bartlett as Marilyn
- Michael Beach as Parking Lot Attendant
Crew
- Peter Yates - Director
- Eric Roth - Screenplay
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