Reversal of Fortune

1990

Action / Biography / Drama / Mystery

17
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 92% · 53 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 78% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 21763 21.8K

coma based on novel or book biography murder lawyer based on memoir or autobiography

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Plot summary

Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.

Director

Barbet Schroeder Photo
Barbet Schroeder

Top cast

Stephen Mailer Photo
Stephen Mailer as Elon Dershowitz
Jeremy Irons Photo
Jeremy Irons as Claus von Bulow
Glenn Close Photo
Glenn Close as Sunny von Bulow
Uta Hagen Photo
Uta Hagen as Maria
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23.976 fps
1 hr 51 min
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English 2.0
TV-14
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23.976 fps
1 hr 51 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by JPV852 7 / 10

Great performance from Jeremy Irons, well deserving of

Great performance from Jeremy Irons, well deserving of his Best Actor Academy Award, kind of is a letdown as both a legal and character drama. Some nice moments and solid performances from everyone but not sure I'll remember this one down the road. **3.5/5**
Reviewed by CinemaSerf 6 / 10

Quite why Jeremy Irons won an Oscar for

Quite why Jeremy Irons won an Oscar for this performance is anyone's guess. Though it is certainly one of his better efforts, he still comes across as remarkably wooden and un-engaging. His character - Klaus von Bulow - has just been convicted of attempting to marry his wealthy, socialite, wife Sonny (Glenn Close) by injecting her with drugs and leaving her to freeze to death on the bathroom floor (odd how they've got $14 million in the bank but never turn the central heating on!). Anyway, now she is lying in a coma and he is desperate so engages the services - at $300 a day, no less - of law professor Alan Dershowitz (upon whose book this is all based) to lead his appeal. It's history this, so if you're across the story then you will already know how it all pans out. Therefore what we are left with is a decent effort from Ron Silver as the tenacious lawyer, some almost ethereal contributions from Close as the occasionally animated corpse/narrator and the frankly underwhelming Irons. It's an interesting look at the drug-fuelled existence of the rich and famous and possibly not the best extolment of the state of marriage but somehow the whole thing is just a bit sterile, lacking, dry...
Reviewed by MichaelMargetis 7 / 10

"What do you give a wife that has everything? ..... (long pause).... a shot of insulin." - Claus Von Bulow

Barbet Schroeder's darkly comic murder mystery 'Reversal of Fortune' was actually better than I thought it would be. It surrounds a social climber Claus Von Bulow (Jeremy Irons - Lolita) who is Charged and convicted with the double counts of attempted murder on his obnoxious and drunken wife Sunny Von Bulow (Glenn Close - Fatal Attraction) with insulin. Claus needs a lawyer to appeal so he contacts a stereo-typical Jewish lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, played incredibly by Ron Silver. Alan takes on Claus' case even though he believes him to be guilty and Alan and his team try to prove him innocent. Glenn Close gives a small but engrossing performance in this as the not so sympathetic victim while Jeremy Irons steals the entire film with his creepy and neurotic yet brilliant and amazing performances as the could-be murderer Claus. The screenplay is really solid and although kind of predictable offers nice thrills and very dark humor. 'Reversal of Fortune' rightfully won Jeremy Irons the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role. If you want something kind of out-there be sure to rent 'Reversal of Fortune' one of these days. Grade: B
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