Suspect (1987 film)
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| Directed by | Peter Yates |
| Produced by | Daniel A. Sherkow |
| Written by | Eric Roth |
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| Music by | Michael Kamen |
| Cinematography | Billy Williams |
| Edited by | Ray Lovejoy |
| Distributed by | Tri-Star Pictures |
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121 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $16 million |
| Box office | $18,782,400 |
Suspect is a 1987 American mystery/courtroom drama film starring Cher, Dennis Quaid and Liam Neeson.
Other notable cast members include John Mahoney, Joe Mantegna, Fred Melamed and Philip Bosco. The film was directed by Peter Yates.
Around Christmas, a United States Supreme Court Justice commits suicide, for which no explanation or context is given. We only see the Justice making a tape recording and then shooting himself. Shortly after the suicide, the body of Elizabeth Quinn, a file clerk at the Justice Department, is found floating in the Potomac River, and Carl Wayne Anderson (Liam Neeson), a homeless, deaf-mute Vietnam veteran, is arrested for the crime, based almost entirely on the fact that he was seen sleeping in Quinn's car the night of her murder. Kathleen Riley (Cher) is the beleaguered D.C. public defender assigned to represent Anderson.
The car was abandoned in a desolate K Street parking lot. Anderson, it is eventually revealed, found the car unlocked and was just looking for a warm place to sleep since it was the dead of winter. But since he was homeless, had no alibi, and was also found in possession of Quinn's wallet, he was arrested for her murder.
Riley finds it difficult to communicate with Anderson, a deaf-mute. Over time, she begins to penetrate his hard exterior and he tries to cooperate with her efforts to mount a defense for him.
An agribusiness lobbyist who normally works on Capitol Hill, Eddie Sanger (Dennis Quaid), is approved as a member of the jury by Riley despite his attempt to be excused. Sanger begins investigating the details of the murder himself, eventually teaming up with Riley beyond the observation of the trial's suspicious judge.
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