High Crimes

High Crimes

Everything you trust. Everything you know. May be a lie...

PG-13 2002 · 115 min · ★ 6.3 · Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime

A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer who has been AWOL for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.

Directed by Carl Franklin · Written by Yuri Zeltser

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