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Suspect is a 1987 American legal mystery thriller film directed by Peter Yates and starring Cher, Dennis Quaid, and Liam Neeson. Other notable cast members include John Mahoney, Joe Mantegna, Fred Melamed, and Philip Bosco.
Oct 23, 1987 · Suspect: Directed by Peter Yates. With Cher, Dennis Quaid, Liam Neeson, John Mahoney. When a homeless man is accused of murdering a Justice Department file clerk, a public defender is tasked with mounting his legal defense.
This tension-filled courtroom drama opens with the suicide of a Supreme Court justice. Then the young Justice Department employee to whom he had given privil...
Carl Anderson (Liam Neeson), a deaf, mute and homeless war veteran, is arrested for the murder of a prominent judge's secretary. But Kathleen Riley (Cher), Anderson's lawyer, believes her client ...
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Their loneliness is underlined in one of the movie's most quietly effective scenes, where Quaid sleeps with a congresswoman, and it's a toss-up whether he's doing it out of ambition, politics or need. The movie develops its case with the kind of logic I enjoy in a whodunit.
Set in Washington DC, Suspect centers on three disparate characters. Carl Wayne Anderson is a homeless, deaf-mute Vietnam veteran accused of murdering Elizabeth Quinn, a file clerk at the Justice Department.
Theatrical trailer of "Suspect" by Peter Yates. Starring Cher, Dennis Quaid, Liam Neeson, John Mahoney, Joe Mantegna, Philip Bosco, E. Katherine Kerr, Fred Melamed, Paul D'Amato, Bill Cobbs ...
