IMDb plot summary: As a lawyer investigates the murder of a colleague, he finds himself more connected to the crime than anyone else.
Directed by Alan J. Pakula. Stars Harrison Ford, Brian Dennehy, and Raul Julia.
Presumed Innocent stars Harrison Ford as a prosecuting attorney whose coworker (and affair partner) is brutally murdered, and he finds himself implicated by evidence he can’t disprove. This was a pretty bland film that never quite makes it where it wants to go. The story is pretty lifeless with a few erotic scenes tossed in, but they very much feel gratuitous. They come across as a cheap cash grab trying to bank on having cast attractive actors -- although, also, if you want your audience to be drawn in by Harrison Ford being hot, you should not also give him the dorkiest haircut of all time. It almost manages to pull the whole thing together with a creative answer to the mystery, but then it tanks that by trying to make that answer seem much more profound than it actually is. Ultimately this is a bland thriller that doesn't have much to make it work.
How it entered my Flickchart:
lost to Clueless (1995)
lost to Ready Player One (2018)
won against Madigan (1968)
won against Robots (2005)
lost to The Number 23 (2007)
won against McLintock! (1963)
won against The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
won against The Bishop Murder Case (1929)
won against Soup to Nuts (1930)
won against In Time (2011)
lost to Batman Begins (2005)
won against Lincoln (2012)
22%, #3142/4060 on my Flickchart.
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