Scott Turow wrote the book on which the screenplay is based. This is a near perfect courtroom thriller. A married lawyer Harrison Ford has an affair with lawyer Greta Scacchi. Scacchi is raped and murdered. Ford goes to trial defended by Raul Julia. Bonnie Bedalia is Ford's wife. John Spencer is Ford chief detective. The medical examiner is blamed for sending the wrong sperm to be analyzed. Brian Dennehy thinks Ford did it. "We always thought you were wound too tight. And when you blew, you blew." The only negative is their house is poorly decorated with cheap furniture. Also the wife Bedalia is portrayed as a masturbating lonely housewife. She is indecisive. "All I make are beds." Then she rediscovers herself and gets accepted into a doctorate math program. She somehow transforms herself through the act of murder. "The destroyer is destroyed." I conclude that murder here is redemptive.
Review of Presumed Innocent
