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Oct 23, 1987 · A public defender and a juror try to prove the innocence of a deaf-mute homeless man accused of murdering a Justice Department file clerk. Suspect is a thriller that combines mystery, courtroom, and suspense genres, directed by Peter Yates and starring Cher, Dennis Quaid, and Liam Neeson.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Peter Yates
- 1987-10-23
Suspect is a 1987 American legal mystery thriller film directed by Peter Yates and starring Cher, Dennis Quaid, and Liam Neeson. Other notable cast members include John Mahoney, Joe Mantegna, Fred Melamed, and Philip Bosco.
This tension-filled courtroom drama opens with the suicide of a Supreme Court justice. Then the young Justice Department employee to whom he had given privileged information is discovered dead. A...
"Suspect" is a well-made thriller, but it was spoiled for me by an extraordinary closing scene where Cher, as the defense attorney, solves the case with all of the logic of a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat. Advertisement. The plot involves the murder of a Washington legal secretary.
Set in Washington DC, Suspect centers on three disparate characters. Carl Wayne Anderson is a homeless, deaf-mute Vietnam veteran accused of murdering Elizabeth Quinn, a file clerk at the Justice Department.
Theatrical trailer of "Suspect" by Peter Yates. Starring Cher, Dennis Quaid, Liam Neeson, John Mahoney, Joe Mantegna, Philip Bosco, E. Katherine Kerr, Fred Melamed, Paul D'Amato, Bill Cobbs ...
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A deaf, mute and homeless war veteran (Neeson) is accused of killing a judge's secretary, but his lawyer (Cher) and a jury member (Quaid) uncover a conspiracy. Suspect is a 2000 movie directed by Peter Yates and rated 3/5 by critics and 2.5/5 by audiences on Rotten Tomatoes.
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