Glenn Close

Jeremy Irons

Ron Silver

Annabella Sciorra

Uta Hagen

Fisher Stevens

Jack Gilpin

Christine Baranski

Stephen Mailer

Christine Dunford

Felicity Huffman

Mano Singh

Johann Carlo

Keith Reddin

Alan Pottinger

Mitchell Whitfield

Tom Wright

Gordon Joseph Weiss

Michael Lord

LisaGay Hamilton

Bill Camp

JD Cullum

Jad Mager

Sarah Fearon

Kristi Hundt

Kara Emerson

Michael Wilkes

Thomas Dorff

Bruno Eyron

Bernt Kuhlmann

Redman Maxfield

Frederick Neumann

Conrad McLaren

Edwin McDonough

Brian Delate

Dess Philpot

Steven Black

Kender Jones

Haes Hill

Dan Rea

Leo Leyden

Malachy McCourt

Jessika Cardinahl

Ericka Klein

Joko Zohrer

Julie Hagerty

Heather Rose Dominic

Mary Ann Hannon

Ronald Rand

Larry Sherman

Constance Shulman

Frank Stellato

Barbet Schroeder

Nicholas Kazan

Luciano Tovoli

Oliver Stone

Edward R. Pressman

Alan Dershowitz

Lee Percy

Mark Isham

Alan D'Angerio

Beth Kushnick

Dan Sable

Bitty O'Sullivan-Smith

Elon Dershowitz

Dan Davis

Jean-Luc Russier

Diane Schneier

Tom Nelson

Jack Cooley

Michael Rauch

Mel Bourne

Milena Canonero

Michael Steinfeld

Judianna Makovsky

Toni Trimble

Allen Weisinger

Michael Flynn

Marie-Ange Ripka

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Reversal of Fortune

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Great performance from Jeremy Irons, well deserving of his Best Actor Academy Award, kind of is a letdown as both a legal and character drama. Some nice moments and solid performances from everyone but not sure I'll remember this one down the road. **3.5/5**

CinemaSerf

Quite why Jeremy Irons won an Oscar for this performance is anyone's guess. Though it is certainly one of his better efforts, he still comes across as remarkably wooden and un-engaging. His character - Klaus von Bulow - has just been convicted of attempting to marry his wealthy, socialite, wife Sonny (Glenn Close) by injecting her with drugs and leaving her to freeze to death on the bathroom floor (odd how they've got $14 million in the bank but never turn the central heating on!). Anyway, now she is lying in a coma and he is desperate so engages the services - at $300 a day, no less - of law professor Alan Dershowitz (upon whose book this is all based) to lead his appeal. It's history this, so if you're across the story then you will already know how it all pans out. Therefore what we are left with is a decent effort from Ron Silver as the tenacious lawyer, some almost ethereal contributions from Close as the occasionally animated corpse/narrator and the frankly underwhelming Irons. It's an interesting look at the drug-fuelled existence of the rich and famous and possibly not the best extolment of the state of marriage but somehow the whole thing is just a bit sterile, lacking, dry...

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