Under Suspicion is a 2000 American film directed by Stephen Hopkins. It stars Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Monica Bellucci and Thomas Jane. The film is based on the 1981 French film Garde à vue and the 1970s British novel Brainwash, written by John Wainwright. It was screened out of competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. The police in San Juan, Puerto Rico investigate the rape and murder of two young girls. Captain Victor Benezet questions Henry Hearst, an upstanding lawyer about the crime, turning a ten-minute interview into a grueling interrogation. Hearst has a strained... relationship with his beautiful young wife Chantal Hearst . A wealthy, influential man, Hearst has become the prime suspect, but the evidence against him is circumstantial. As the city celebrates the San Sebastian Festival, the police captain brings in Hearst for questioning, at first politely, and then less so, as he and a younger detective chip away at the suspect's alibi. They interrogate him for hours while Hearst's most private secrets are exposed one by one.
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| Release date: | September 24, 2000 |
| Directed by: | Stephen Hopkins |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 110 Minutes |
| Producer: | Anne Marie Gillen, Stephen Hopkins, Lori McCreary |
| Editor: | John Smith |
| Music by: | BT |
| Cinematography: | Peter Levy |
| Screenplay by: | Tom Provost, W. Peter Iliff, Michel Audiard |
| Estimated budget: | $25,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Under Suspicion |
| Genre: | Thriller |