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Reversal of Fortune

"The Case of Claus Von Bulow. An American Saga of Money and Mystery."

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.

Top Cast

  • Glenn Close

    Glenn Close

    Sunny von Bülow / Narrator

  • Jeremy Irons

    Jeremy Irons

    Claus von Bülow

  • Ron Silver

    Ron Silver

    Alan Dershowitz

  • Annabella Sciorra

    Annabella Sciorra

    Sarah

  • Uta Hagen

    Uta Hagen

    Maria

  • Fisher Stevens

    Fisher Stevens

    David Marriott

  • Jack Gilpin

    Jack Gilpin

    Peter MacIntosh

  • Christine Baranski

    Christine Baranski

    Andrea Reynolds

  • Stephen Mailer

    Stephen Mailer

    Elon Dershowitz

Overview

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.

Rating

6.6 / 10
355 Reviews
2 Popular

2 Reviews

  • JPV852
    JPV852
    7 Sep 28, 2020

    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**

  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    6 May 21, 2023

    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...

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