Presumed Innocent (1990)


Harrison Ford           Rusty Sabich
Brian Dennehy           Raymond Horgan
Raul Julia              Sandy Stern
Bonnie Bedelia          Barbara Sabich
Paul Winfield           Judge Larren Lyttle
Greta Scacchi           Carolyn Polhemus
John Spencer            Detective Lipranzer
Joe Grifasi             Tommy Molto
Tom Mardirosian         Nico Della Guardia
Anna Maria Horsford(II) Eugenia
Sab Shimono             "Painless" Kumagai
Bradley Whitford        Jamie Kemp
Christine Estabrook(II) Lydia MacDougall
Michael Tolan (II)      Mr Polhemus
Madison Arnold          Sergeant Lionel Kenneally
Ron Frazier             Stew Dubinsky
Jesse Bradford          Nat Sabich

Directed by:            Alan J. Pakula
Produced by:            Susan Solt, Sydney Pollack, Mark Rosenberg


A prosecuter is accused of murdering a beautiful colleague with whom he was having an extramarital affair. 

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After his former girlfriend is killed and he becomes the prime suspect, D.A. Rusty Sabich goes on a search 
to find the real killer and finds out he/she may be closer to him than he thinks.

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Carolyn Polhemus, an up-and-comer in the Kindle County D.A.'s Office, is found viciously murdered in her 
home. Immediately her boss, D.A. Raymond Horgan and his chief deputy, Rusty Sabich start an investigation. 
Horgan, however, is in the middle of a campaign to keep his job, which he ultimately loses to former 
subordinate Nico Della Guardia. Della Guardia and his new deputy, Tommy Molto, decide to prosecute Sabich 
for Carolyn's murder when it is revealed that Sabich was a former lover of Polhemus. Horgan also turns 
against his former subordinate, and Rusty soon realizes he has few friends left - except for Sandy Stern, 
whom he has often faced on the other side of the courtroom, and who will become his new defense lawyer 
when he is put on trial for murder. Investigation by Stern and his team leads them to think that Rusty was 
framed for murder - by Molto, who wanted Sabich's job and was trying to punish him for backing Horgan. Is 
Rusty Sabich innocent...or is he a murderer?

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When a female D.A. is killed, the D.A. assigns his assistant to handle the investigation. Only problem is 
that he was having an affair with her. And the evidence reveals that he is the killer. So he suspects that 
the man who wants his boss' job is trying to frame him. He turns to Sandy Stern a highly celebrated defense 
attorney to represent him.