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Directed by | Carl Franklin |
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Based on | High Crimes by Joseph Finder |
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Cinematography | Theo van de Sande |
Edited by | Carole Kravetz-Aykanian |
Music by | Graeme Revell |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $42 million[1] |
Box office | $63.8 million[1] |
High Crimes is a 2002 American legal thriller film directed by Carl Franklin and starring Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman, reunited from the 1997 film Kiss the Girls. The plot follows the successful criminal defense lawyer whose husband is arrested and accused of being the source of a shooting that killed nine people in El Salvador in 1990. An investigation reveals her husband was then a member of the United States Marine Corps, operating under a different name. The stakes are high as her client faces up to a life sentence for murder. The screenplay by Yuri Zeltser and Grace Cary Bickley is based on Joseph Finder's 1998 novel of the same name.