Presumed Innocent is a 1990 film adaptation of the best-selling novel of the same name by Scott Turow, which tells the story of a prosecutor charged with the murder of his female colleague and mistress. Directed by Alan J. Pakula, the film stars Harrison Ford, Brian Dennehy, Raúl Juliá, Bonnie Bedelia, Paul Winfield, and Greta Scacchi. It was the eighth highest grossing film of 1990, grossing $221 million worldwide. A sequel, Scott Turow's Innocent, was a made-for-TV movie aired as part of TNT's Mystery Movie Night series in December 2011. "Rusty" Sabich is a prosecutor and the... right-hand man of Prosecuting Attorney Raymond Horgan . When his colleague Carolyn Polhemus is found raped and murdered in her apartment, Raymond insists that Rusty take charge of the investigation. The election for County PA is approaching and Tommy Molto , the acting head of Homicide, has left to join the rival campaign of Nico Della Guardia . Rusty, a married man, faces a conflict of interest since he had an affair with Carolyn. When he showed little ambition, and would therefore be of little use to her career, she dumped him.
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| Release date: | 1990 |
| Directed by: | Alan J. Pakula |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 127 Minutes |
| Producer: | Sydney Pollack, Mark Rosenberg |
| Editor: | Evan A. Lottman |
| Music by: | John Williams, Richard Wolf |
| Cinematography: | Gordon Willis |
| Screenplay by: | Frank R. Pierson, Alan J. Pakula |
| Adapted from: | Presumed Innocent |
| Genre: | Thriller |