Reversal of Fortune
Reversal of Fortune

Reversal of Fortune (1990)

6.6 ? Oct 19, 1990 1h 51m

Overview

Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.

Genres

Drama

Release Date

October 19, 1990

Rating

6.6 /10

Runtime

1h 51m

Official Trailer from YouTube

Glenn Close

Glenn Close

Sunny von Bülow / Narrator

Jeremy Irons

Jeremy Irons

Claus von Bülow

Ron Silver

Ron Silver

Alan Dershowitz

Annabella Sciorra

Annabella Sciorra

Sarah

Uta Hagen

Uta Hagen

Maria

Fisher Stevens

Fisher Stevens

David Marriott

Jack Gilpin

Jack Gilpin

Peter MacIntosh

Christine Baranski

Christine Baranski

Andrea Reynolds

Stephen Mailer

Stephen Mailer

Elon Dershowitz

Christine Dunford

Christine Dunford

Ellen

Felicity Huffman

Felicity Huffman

Minnie

Mano Singh

Mano Singh

Raj

Johann Carlo

Johann Carlo

Nancy

Keith Reddin

Keith Reddin

Dobbs

Alan Pottinger

Alan Pottinger

Chuck

Mitchell Whitfield

Mitchell Whitfield

Curly

Tom Wright

Tom Wright

Jack

Gordon Joseph Weiss

Gordon Joseph Weiss

Tom Berman

Michael Lord

Eli

LisaGay Hamilton

LisaGay Hamilton

Mary

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JPV852

7.0/10

Sep 28, 2020

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**

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6.0/10

May 21, 2023

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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