Reversal of Fortune

1990 • 1h 51m •

Drama

MOVIEVIBE Rating

★ 6.7/10

365 reviews

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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.

"The Case of Claus Von Bulow. An American Saga of Money and Mystery."

Top Billed Cast

Glenn Close

Sunny von Bülow / Narrator

Jeremy Irons

Claus von Bülow

Ron Silver

Alan Dershowitz

Annabella Sciorra

Sarah

Uta Hagen

Maria

Fisher Stevens

David Marriott

Jack Gilpin

Peter MacIntosh

Christine Baranski

Andrea Reynolds

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J JPV852 Verified TMDB Critic

2020-09-28

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**...

C CinemaSerf Verified TMDB Critic

2023-05-21

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 ...