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High crimes

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Movie propaganda

Everything you trust, everything you know, may be a lie...

Claire Kubik (Ashley Judd), a happily married, successful lawyer is shocked to learn that her husband, Tom Chapman (Jim Caviezel), has a hidden past as a classified military operative, and is accused of committing a heinous war crime. As she prepares to defend her husband in a top-secret military court, where none of the rules she knows so well apply, she gets help from a "wild card", Charles Grimes (Morgan Freeman) - a former military attorney who doesn't play by anyone's rules.

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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda

Film thriller crime army soldier murder secret military secret war crime legal

Persons of interest

Ashley Judd .... Claire Kubik
Morgan Freeman .... Charles Grimes
Jim Caviezel .... Tom Chapman
Adam Scott .... Lieutenant Terrence Embry
Amanda Peet .... Jackie Grimaldi
Michael Gaston .... Major Waldron
Tom Bower .... FBI Agent "Massie" Mullins
Jesse Beaton .... Ramona Phillips
Samuel Sheng .... Josh
John Apicella .... Franklin
Joseph Finder .... Author
Grace Cary Bickley .... Screenwriter
Susan Shilliday .... Screenwriter
Yuri Zeltse .... Screenwriter
Carl Franklin .... Director

Cinematic intelligence sources

High crimes official movie site
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Studios and distributors:

20th Century Fox * New Regency

Intelligence analyst

Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

Ahhh, secrets within secrets within secrets. If there's one thing that the armed forces are good at, it's making up secrets, especially secrets that they shouldn't be keeping.

High crimes re-teams Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman after their successful on-screen debut duet in Kiss the girls. Yes folks, Hollywood is that unsubtle. Fortunately, they throw Jim Caviezel into the mix and end up with a pretty good courtroom/military/mystery thriller. There are plenty of twists to keep even the most insightful audience member awake through to the very end. The circumstances of the final twist are just a little contrived but you've been so well manipulated by then that it doesn't matter too much. After all, if you go and see a head game movie like this, the last thing that you're going to do is suspend your willing suspension of disbelief.

This is a good, meaty combination of plot, action and actors with some good red herrings (and fish of other colours). High crimes is not a pretty film but it certainly spins you out.