| Guilty by Suspicion (1991)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Robert De Niro |
David Merrill
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| Annette Bening |
Ruth Merrill
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| George Wendt |
Bunny Baxter
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| Patricia Wettig |
Dorothy Nolan
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| Sam Wanamaker |
Felix Graff
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| Luke Edwards |
Paulie Merrill
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| Martin Scorsese |
Joe Lesser
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| Chris Cooper |
Larry Nolan
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| Ben Piazza |
Darryl Zanuck
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| Barry Primus |
Bert Alan
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| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Crime; Drama |
| Director |
Irwin Winkler |
| Producer |
Alan C. Blomquist; Nelson McCormick |
| Writer |
Irwin Winkler |
| Studio |
Warner Brothers |
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| Running Time |
105 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
| IMDb Rating |
6.3 |
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| Plot |
| The directorial debut of producer Irwin Winkler, Guilty by Suspicion is a sobering account of one movie executive's woes in dealing with the political fallout from the McCarthy Era Hollywood blacklist. Robert De Niro stars as David Merrill, a film director in the 1950s whose obsession with his burgeoning career has estranged him from his wife Ruth (Annette Bening) and their son. When he returns from a trip to Paris, Merrill is surprised when told by his boss, Darryl F. Zanuck (Ben Piazza) that he's been summoned to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee, which is investigating Communist ties to Hollywood. Although Merrill once attended a meeting years before, he's not a Communist, and he refuses to help the committee wreck the career of his friend Bunny Baxter (George Wendt). Merrill becomes blacklisted, unable to find work even in menial positions or under assumed names as the editor of a B-movie or the director of a low-budget Western. Reconciled with his family, Merrill caves in and agrees to testify, but as he prepares to "name names," his conscience plagues him. — Karl Williams |
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| Product Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
Fullscreen (4:3) |
| Layers |
Single Side, Single Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
085391205326 |
| Release Date |
6/1/2004 |
| Subtitles |
English (Closed Captioned) |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| Audio Tracks |
Dolby Digital Surround [English] |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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| Color Closed-captioned Dolby |
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