High Crimes Twentieth Century Fox

Jet, April 15, 2002 by Sylvia P. Flanagan

Claire Kubik, a high-powered attorney, and her husband Tom, a successful contractor with his own business, are madly in love and are planning to have a family. But a burglary at their home triggers a chain of events that shatters their world. The FBI agents arrest Tom. The charge: Under his real name, Ronald Chapman, Tom, as a covert military operative, murdered civilians in El Salvador and has been a fugitive for the past 15 years.

Tom admits he is Ronald and he was part of a clandestine operation that did result in a massacre for which Tom was blamed. But he assures Claire of his innocence and that the real perpetrators made Tom their fall guy because he alone could identify them as the men who gave and executed the order. As she prepares to defend her husband in a top-secret military court, she realizes she needs help from someone who knows these rules--and is willing to break them. She enlists the aid of Charlie Grimes, a former military attorney who relishes the opportunity to take on the very hierarchy that disgraced him years earlier. Starring Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, and Jim Cavizel.