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REVERSAL OF FORTUNE
A True Story

Glenn Close - Jeremy Irons - Ron Silver

27 December, 1979.
Enormously wealthy American heiress Sunny von Bulow lapses into an insulin induced coma.

16 March, 1982.
Her enigmatic European husband, Claus von Bulow, is charged with her murder....
It was a trial that captured the world's attention...
Was Claus von Bulow a savage murderer
or simply the lap-dog husband of a suicidal neurotic?
Defence attorney Alan Dershowitz is hired to prove von Bulow's innocence.
Fighting against public hatred of the icy aristocrat and his stepchildren's claim
that Claus tried to kill their mother.  Dershowitz and his team battle to unearth
new evidence that could demolish the entire case and reverse the  jury's verdict.
Starring Jeremy Irons in his Oscar winning role as von Bulow, Glenn Close
and Ron Silver, 'Reversal of Fortune' is the suspenseful and critically acclaimed
account of one of the decade's most notorious murder trials.

Running time 107 mins approx.
Cert 15 (Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over)