Reversal of Fortune 1990 123movies

Watch: Reversal of Fortune 1990 123movies, Full Movie Online – Alan Dershowitz a brilliant professor of law is hired by wealthy socialite Claus von Bulow to attempt to overturn his two convictions for attempted murder of his extremely wealthy wife. Based on a true story the film concentrates not on the trial like other legal thrillers, but on the preparatory work that Dershowitz and his students put in as they attempt to disprove the prosecution’s case and achieve the Reversal of Fortune of the title..
Plot: 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.
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Ratings:

	7.2/10 Votes: 17,030
	92% | RottenTomatoes
	93/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 231 Popularity: 10.716 | TMDB

Reviews:

Very Good, Well Casted Movie
“Reversal of Fortune” is based on Alan Dershowitz’s book on the two trials of Claus von Bülow, accused of attempting to murder his wife, Sunny, by drug overdose. But instead of killing her, she is left in a deep coma from which she will never arise. This movie is cleverly narrated by the comatose Sunny with the story told in flashback. Also, the movie is non-judgmental, it take no sides on who is telling the truth, even on the point of whether a murder was even attempted. Did he do it or was the overdose an accident? As Sonny herself says in the beginning of the movie, “you tell me”.

Everything about this movie works; great performances (helped by great casting), directing, and screenwriting. Nothing is amiss. If it is true that Western movie habits are changing away from mindless action movies, then “Reversal of Fortune” should enjoy a renaissance at the local video store. It deserves it.

Prince Of Perversion
When a rich but difficult-to-live-with woman turns up in a coma, suspicions naturally fall upon her someone sinister spouse. But even a guilty man deserves a fair trial, or so a committed legal scholar believes in a film about skewed viewpoints that plays with our own point of view.

First-billed actor Glenn Close plays Sunny von Bülow in a bed for much of the film, either laid out in a druggy haze or in a full-fledged coma from which she tells us she won’t emerge. That leaves Ron Silver as legal eagle Alan Dershowitz handling most of the action arranging a fresh defense for convicted murderer Claus von Bülow, whom Jeremy Irons plays with slick tragi-comic flair.

“Let the chips fall where they may!” he tells Dershowitz when warned about the perils of seeking out the truth.

“That’s what an innocent man would say,” a skeptical Dersh replies.

“I know,” says smug Claus with a lazy pull at his cigarette. Is he sincere, or playing a part?

Director Barbet Schroeder seems to have a thing about the tricky ground where power and morality meet: He made his name with a documentary of dictator Idi Amin that came in two versions, a friendlier one for Amin’s domestic distribution in Uganda and a less guarded version for international distribution. Here he seems to enjoy his proximity to another devil, albeit one who may be innocent after all.

We certainly root for Claus, mainly because Irons plays him in a way that makes him an underdog, whether against the legal system or Dershowitz’s team of young lawyers who mock him about his sex life. “We can’t all be like you,” he tells Dershowitz after the latter goes off on him for his lack of apparent concern about his vegetative wife, and there’s a trace of real feeling in his line reading.

He seems less a cold-blooded killer than the emotionally-stunted product of a rich society, in a way not much different from poor Sunny. She wants to lie in bed smoking and pill-popping while he wants a career, not to mention a little time with a pretty soap-opera actress. “You marry me for my money, then you demand to work,” she huffs. “You’re the prince of perversion.”

We are encouraged to see him that way, too, although not necessarily a criminal one. He lives a life so far removed from normal human interaction and concerns that he seems to enjoy his little jests even if no one else can – except the audience, which makes us a little perverse, too.

“Reversal Of Fortune” has a lot of great moments, but plenty of duff ones, too. There’s a subplot about a sleazy gadabout played with zest by Fisher Stevens that never gels with the main story, and neither does an attempt at shoehorning some romance for Dershowitz with one of his assistants. Nicholas Kazan delivers a smart script but does get stuck in the weeds trying to get across a good deal of information.

Silver is great though, giving pound for pound the film’s best performance even if Close is first-billed and Irons won the Best Actor Oscar. You need a center for a film like this, and someone who’s morally grounded, but Dershowitz is presented as that here only in a relative sense. He not only takes Claus’s case despite his belief of his guilt, but can even joke about wanting to defend Hitler in a court of law, just so he can kill him after by himself.

Is Dershowitz the film’s real prince of perversion? Schroeder and crew aren’t saying, but you can tell they’re having fun making you think.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 51 min (111 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 15445131
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Biography, Drama, Mystery
Director Barbet Schroeder
Writer Alan Dershowitz, Nicholas Kazan
Actors Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, Ron Silver
Country United States, Japan, United Kingdom
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 13 wins & 16 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Stereo (RCA Sound Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panaflex Camera and Lenses by Panavision
Laboratory Technicolor, New York (NY), USA (color)
Film Length 3,028 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm