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Audiences rate it 16 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer who has been AWOL for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.
Ratings
IMDb6.4/10
Metacritic48/100
Audiences rate it 16 points higher than critics do.
910 audience votes
Key crew
- Carl FranklinDirector
- Yuri ZeltserScreenplay
- Grace Cary BickleyScreenplay
- Graeme RevellOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Ashley JuddClaire Kubik
- Morgan FreemanCharlie Grimes
- Jim CaviezelTom Kubik
- Adam ScottLieutenant Terrence Embry
- Amanda PeetJackie
- Bruce DavisonGeneral Bill Marks
- Tom BowerFBI Agent Mullins
- Juan Carlos HernándezMajor James Hernandez
- Michael GastonMajor Waldron
- Jude CiccolellaColonel Farrell
- Emilio RiveraSalvadoran Man
- Michael ShannonTroy Abbott
Stills
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Themes
californiabased on novel or bookwar crimesmarried couplemilitary courtel salvadorcover-upcovert operationdefense attorneyu.s. marinetrying to get pregnantshocking