Presumed Innocent

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Presumed Innocent

film by Pakula [1990]

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- Alan J. Pakula
  Films of the 1990s
  Presumed Innocent (1990), an adaptation of Scott Turow’s best-selling thriller, was a return to form for Pakula. Harrison Ford starred as an attorney who has been charged with the murder of his former assistant, with whom he had an affair. Pakula (who cowrote the screenplay)…
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  Presumed Innocent (1990), an adaptation of Scott Turow’s best-selling thriller, was a return to form for Pakula. Harrison Ford starred as an attorney who has been charged with the murder of his former assistant, with whom he had an affair. Pakula (who cowrote the screenplay)…
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- Scott Turow
  Law background and writing career
  …first novel, Presumed Innocent (1987; film 1990 and TV miniseries 2024), was written while he was working as an assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago (1978–86). The story of Rusty Sabich, a deputy prosecutor assigned to investigate the murder of a female colleague with whom he had had an affair, is…
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  …first novel, Presumed Innocent (1987; film 1990 and TV miniseries 2024), was written while he was working as an assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago (1978–86). The story of Rusty Sabich, a deputy prosecutor assigned to investigate the murder of a female colleague with whom he had had an affair, is…
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