High Crimes (2002)Movies

Movies from Film Forum, 04/11/02High Crimes is powered by the popular onscreen pairing of Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman, who starred together in Kiss the Girls, and adds the increasingly popular Jim Caviezel, who starred in Frequency, The Count of Monte Cristo, and The Thin Red Line. It also has a first-class director at the helm—Carl Franklin became a favorite among thriller buffs and movie critics with his early releases One False Move and Devil in a Blue Dress.So critics are wondering why such talented filmmakers agreed to bring such a terrible script to the screen. High Crimes tells the story of a woman (Judd) who works with a disgraced ex-Marine (Freeman) to prove the innocence of her husband (Caviezel), an ex-soldier accused of murdering El Salvadorian civilians. They discover...