The characters of "Above Suspicion" are not quite hillbilly caricatures but they verge so closely to them that you can see overqualified actors like Clarke struggling against the superficial script and filmmaking choices. Bluntly, and like that film, I never bought that any of these people were real. The whole project has a sense of “hillbilly dress-up” not unlike a certain divisive Ron Howard film of last year. Clarke does her best to hold it together but is woefully miscast and Noyce can’t get her to the right place regarding the darker issues of this story like addiction, spousal abuse, and shocking violence of the final act. Neither seems quite comfortable in their roles. In this tragically dull recounting of events, Emilia Clarke (“Game of Thrones”) plays Smith and a fellow HBO drama alum in Jack Huston ("Boardwalk Empire") plays Putnam.
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There’s more than enough meat on the bones of this true story for a film like “Above Suspicion,” but director Phillip Noyce can’t figure out how to tell it in a way that's more interesting than a Wikipedia entry. He was arrested in 1990 and the case is credited as the first time an FBI agent was convicted of murder. When Putnam tried to end things after he no longer really needed her, Smith threatened to expose him, and the FBI agent killed his informant girlfriend. For extra income and a sense of self-importance, Smith was excited to help Putnam, and the two formed a relationship that turned sexual. In 1987, a young hotshot FBI agent named Mark Putnam moved to the area to try and track down a local bank robber, and he crossed paths with Smith, turning her into an informant that allowed him to break multiple cases in the area. In the ‘70s, as a teenager, Smith hooked up with a Kentucky drug dealer named Kenneth Smith and found herself deeply embedded in the local drug scene, one that was growing with prescription drugs and other illegal substances.
Seis días después del estreno de la producción cinematográfica, Reeve se rompió el cuello en un accidente mientras montaba a caballo, quedandose así paralizado por el resto de su vida. (es)
También se le considera una película noir.
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