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Did European aristocrat Claus von Bülow (Jeremy Irons) try to murder his wife Sunny (Glenn Close) at their luxurious Newport mansion in 1980? Tabloids of the day had their opinions. “You have one thing in your favor,” defense attorney Alan Dershowitz (Ron Silver) told von Bülow. “Everybody hates you.” Based on the book by Alan Dershowitz.
"The brilliantly elegant Reversal Of Fortune is perhaps the most potent screen satire of the upper class since Citizen Kane."
- DAVID DENBY, New York Magazine
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Director: Barbet Schroeder
Screenplay: Barbet Schroeder
Cast: Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Ron Silver, Christine Baranski, Uta Hagen, Fisher Stevens, Felicity Huffman, Annabella Sciorra
Executive Producer: Michael Rauch
Co-Producer: Nicholas Kazan, Elon Dershowitz
Associate Producers: Diane Schneier, Michael Flynn
Distributor: Warner Bros.
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PRESS
New York Times review by Vincent Canby, October 17, 1990
AWARDS
Won:
Best Actor in a Leading Role (Jeremy Irons)/Academy Awards, 1991
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture—Drama (Jeremy Irons)/Golden Globes, 1991
Nominated:
Best Director (Barbet Schroeder), Best Screenplay, Writing Based on Material from Another Medium (Nicholas Kazan)/Academy Awards, 1991
Best Motion Picture—Drama, Best Director (Barbet Schroeder), Best Screenplay—Motion Picture (Nicholas Kazan)/Golden Globes, 1991
Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Nicholas Kazan)/Writers Guild of America, 1991
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