Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

SnoopyStyle Sunny von Bülow (Glenn Close) lies brain dead and in a coma. She would narrate much of the movie. She is a rich socialite in Newport, Rhode Island. Her husband Claus (Jeremy Irons) is suspected by his step-kids and the maid of attempted murder. He stands to inherit $14 million of her fortune. They recruit a former D.A. to investigate. In 1982, the government uses the privately uncovered evidences to convict Claus. Claus hires Professor Alan Dershowitz (Ron Silver) to be his attorney on the advice of his girlfriend Andrea Reynolds (Christine Baranski) to get a Jew. Dershowitz is uncertain of his innocence but he needs money for the defense of two black kids about to be executed in Alabama. He also rejects what is essentially a privatized prosecution. He gathers a team of former colleges and students. Sarah (Annabella Sciorra) is a former girlfriend. Student Minnie (Felicity Huffman) almost walks out refusing to defend a rich guilty guy. David Marriott (Fisher Stevens) is a sleazy witness with damning testimony.Both Jeremy Irons and Ron Silver are terrific. Irons never lets on his guilt or innocence. The investigation is compelling. There is clarity in the writing. This is based on Dershowitz's book and therefore the opposition doesn't have much screen time. There is real tension about Claus's trial and his guilt. It's a solid trial movie.

inioi Besides the thriller aspects based on a real event, the movie shows very clearly the huge difference between this two worlds: ordinary people and very rich people, and and the relationship between them.When Ron Silver and his collaborators meets Jeremy Irons, this appears to come from another planet. He is completely disconnected from the reality in which he lives. Looking over his shoulder has become a way of life. This is what money makes to some people.When Bulow was found guilty, he appealed, hiring Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz to represent him. The process by which Dershowitz and his team attempt to investigate the legal case is very interesting.Film making is superb, as the Mark Isham's soundtrack.Some early Barbet Schroeder's movies are worth to see: Single White Female, Barfly,and La Virgen de los Sicarios.8/10

gavin6942 Wealthy Sunny von Bülow (Glenn Close) lies brain-dead, husband Claus (Jeremy Irons) guilty of attempted murder; but he says he is innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz (Ron Silver) for his appeal.This film, based more or less on a true story, brings up one of those age-old legal ethics questions. Is morality and legality the same? Not at all. A person, no matter how strange or despicable, deserves the best defense. But if someone is found innocent, that does not automatically make them morally innocent. (And here we never quite know if Claus is an attempted killer or just does not care.) Jeremy Irons excels as always, and Glenn Close may have found her best role: being in a coma. She has never been good at anything else. And Ron Silver? Heck, he even made a soul-sucking loser like Dershowitz come across as a fascinating guy.

kenjha This is the true story of a millionaire accused of attempting to murder his wife. While the legal wrangling is interesting, the film lacks dramatic tension and narrative flow. Taking a page from "Sunset Blvd," this film features narration by Sunny while she's in a coma. However, this device is not followed to its logical conclusion - the revelation of what really happened to Sunny. Irons has a field day as Claus, a pompous blow-hard who elicits zero sympathy. It is not a great performance, bordering on caricature, but it is fun to watch. Close has some good moments, but her role is limited. Silver is well cast as the lawyer hired to reverse von Bulow's conviction.