Search results
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.
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.
Suspect (1987) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
A deaf-mute Vietnam veteran is charged with her murder and Cher, a public defender, ...more. This tension-filled courtroom drama opens with the suicide of a Supreme Court justice. Then the young...
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. Kathleen Riley is the beleaguered Federal Public Defender assigned to represent Anderson.
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...
- (18)
- Mystery & Thriller
- R
He is a deaf-mute who has lost all trust in society, but Cher penetrates his defenses and becomes convinced he is innocent. In that case, who committed the murder? A key clue is provided in the first scene of the movie, which shows a Supreme Court justice committing suicide.
Starring Cher, Dennis Quaid, Liam Neeson, John Mahoney, Joe Mantegna, Philip Bosco, E. Katherine Kerr, Fred Melamed, Paul D'Amato, Bill Cobbs ...more. Theatrical trailer of "Suspect" by Peter...
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.
Suspect takes you to the river a few times, portraying the Potomac as ice cold and ugly gray. Cher’s character, Kathleen Riley, claims “half the city washes up there.”. The river is almost like a repository for the desolate and the desperate. The murder victim is found floating there.
