REVERSAL OF FORTUNE (BILINGUAL)

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• Release Year: 1990
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Reversal of Fortune focuses on one of the most intriguing criminal trials of the 1980s, that of Claus von Bülow, who was accused of sending his rich wife Sunny into a permanent coma with an overdose of insulin. Director Barbet Schroeder, working from Nicholas Kazan's evocative, darkly humorous script, turns the story into both a look at the lives of rich folks with too much time on their hands and a whodunit, as lawyer Alan Dershowitz (Ron Silver) prepares to defend von Bülow (Jeremy Irons) in court. Irons won an Oscar for his spooky, knowing performance, which hints at depths of degeneracy without ever putting a dent in a veneer of bored elegance. The contrast between the hard-charging Dershowitz and his eager-beaver Harvard law students and the eternally languid von Bülow adds unexpected humour.
• Cast: Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Ron Silver, Annabella Sciorra, Uta Hagen, Fisher Stevens, Jack Gilpin, Christine Baranski, Stephen Mailer, Christine Dunford, Felicity Huffman, Mano Singh, Johann Carlo, Keith Reddin, Alan Pottinger, Mitchell Whitfield, Tom Wright, Gordon Joseph Weiss, Michael Lord, Lisagay Hamilton, Bill Camp, JD Cullum, Jad Mager, Sarah Fearon, Kristi Hundt, Kara Emerson, Michael Wikes, Thomas Dorff, Bruno Eyron, Bernt Kuhlmann, Redman Maxfield, Frederick Neumann, Conrad McLaren, Edwin McDonough, Brian Delate, Dess Philpot, Steven Black, Kender Jones, Haes Hill, Dan Rea, Leo Leyden, Malachy McCourt, Jessika Cardinahl, Ericka Klein, Joko Zohrer, Julie Hagerty, Mary Ann Hannon, Heather Rose, Constance Shulman, Frank Stellato, David Van Tieghem, Barbet Schroeder, Alan M. Dershowitz, Nicholas Kazan
• Director: Barbet Schroeder
• Runtime: 1:52
• Company: Warner Home Video
• Media Format: Movie