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Presumed Innocent
MEANRANK
71/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2114
- IMDb #2482
- Google retired #2258
- Rotten Tomatoes #1941
- Metacritic #1435
- Letterboxd #2140
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1488
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2836
- Metacritic Critics #1304
- Metacritic Audience #1835
- Criticker #1405
- Kinopoisk #2465
- AlloCiné #2703
- Trakt #2186
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See the most agreed on films →A prominent prosecutor finds his world shattered when a close colleague is brutally murdered. He is abruptly assigned to investigate the crime, but the evidence swiftly begins to point toward him as the prime suspect. Trapped in a web of circumstantial proof and office politics, he must fight to clear his name while dark secrets from his personal life threaten to destroy him.
Details
- Director
- Alan J. Pakula
- Writers
- Alan J. Pakula, Frank Pierson
- Based on
- Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
- Released
- 27 July 1990
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $22.0M
- Box office
- $221.3M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 2 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| USC Scripter Awards 1991 | USC Scripter Award | Alan J. Pakula, Frank Pierson (screenplay) Scott Turow ( novel ) | Nominee |
| Edgar Allan Poe Awards 1990 | Best Motion Picture | Alan J. Pakula, Frank Pierson | Nominee |
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2 awards — Presumed Innocent
×| Best Motion Picture | Alan J. Pakula, Frank Pierson | Nominee |
| USC Scripter Award | Alan J. Pakula, Frank Pierson (screenplay) Scott Turow ( novel ) | Nominee |