Under Suspicion 2000, Rated R Columbia/Tristar Home Video

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Starring Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, et al. Released to DVD on January 2, 2001.

The system isn't perfect. This much we know. And in Hollywood this is more true than just about anywhere else. Good movies do fall through the cracks with a very frequent regularity. Which explains perfectly how Under Suspicion (an American remake of the 1981 French film, Garde a Vue), a mystery featuring both Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman, managed to arrive in video stores without the benefit of a nationwide theatrical release. Hackman stars as Henry Hearst, an extraordinarily wealthy lawyer living in Puerto Rico with his half-century younger wife, Chantel (Monica Bellucci). Under Suspicion opens with Hearst stopping in at the main San Juan police headquarters to answer some further questions of Captain Victor Benezet's, that focuses on the young girl whom Hearst found murdered earlier in the week. As the night progresses, Benezet and his headstrong partner Felix Owens (Thomas Jane) become convinced that Hearst may have had more to do with the young girl's murder than he is letting on. From here, director Stephen Hopkins twists and turns his way down a most unusual emotional highway to Under Suspicion's enthralling and strangely subjective ending. Told through an interesting melange of unorthodox flashbacks, Under Suspicion was a most captivating film. This cerebral work of celluloid didn't see a theatrical release, but with a nationwide video release, Americans throughout the United States will nonetheless be able to discover this movie.