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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 privileged information is discovered dead. A...
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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Suspect. Roger Ebert October 23, 1987. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Art films can play all the games they want. But if you're going to make a film in a commercial genre, then I think you have to play by the rules of that genre.
When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and mute. But when public defender Kathleen Riley is assigned to his case, she begins to believe that Anderson may actually be innocent.
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.
