Reversal of Fortune
The affluent Sunny von Bülow remains brain-dead, while her husband Claus is guilty of attempted murder; he maintains his innocence and enlists Alan Dershowitz to lead his appeal.
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Barbet Schroeder
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Oliver Stone served as a producer on the film, bringing his producing credit to this legal drama adaptation.
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The film generated $15,445,131 in revenue, marking a specific commercial outcome for the production.
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JPV852
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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Reversal of Fortune FAQs
Barbet Schroeder is the director of Reversal of Fortune.
The cast of Reversal of Fortune includes Glenn Close as Sunny von Bülow / Narrator, Ron Silver as Alan Dershowitz, Fisher Stevens as David Marriott, Jeremy Irons as Claus von Bülow, LisaGay Hamilton as Mary, Stephen Mailer as Elon Dershowitz, Christine Baranski as Andrea Reynolds, Bill Camp as Bill, Mitchell Whitfield as Curly, Tom Wright as Jack, Alan Pottinger as Chuck, Jessika Cardinahl as Dinner Guest, and more.
The duration of Reversal of Fortune is 1h 51 mins.
Yes. You can watch the Reversal of Fortune trailer on this Fanbiz page on Fanziz.
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Reversal of Fortune was released on 19 Oct 1990.
Reversal of Fortune is listed under Drama on Fanbiz.
Reversal of Fortune has 2 reviews on Fanziz, with an average rating of 6.5/10. One reviewer wrote: "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 perfor..."
1. Oliver Stone served as a producer on the film, bringing his producing credit to this legal drama adaptation. 2. The film generated $15,445,131 in revenue, marking a specific commercial outcome for the production.
