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Released
1987 · FILM

Suspect

A public defender and a juror team up to prove a deaf, mute homeless veteran is innocent of murder and framed for a Supreme Court judge's suicide.

She's a lawyer who broke two laws of her profession... Never get involved with a juror and don't look for clues in dangerous places.

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Written by
Runtime
121 min
CrimeDramaMystery

Synopsis

When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all evidence points to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who is deaf and mute. Public defender Kathleen Riley, assigned to his case, begins to suspect that Anderson may be innocent. Juror Eddie Sanger, a Washington lobbyist, shares her belief, and the two launch their own investigation into the events surrounding the crimes.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Ray LovejoyShot by Billy WilliamsScored by Michael KamenDesigned by Stuart Wurtzel

Box Office

1987 · Box office

Grossed $18.8M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$18.8M

Worldwide gross$18.8M

Opening weekend: $4.2M 22% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $5.3M28% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,029 theaters

Also known as

  • Suspect - Unter Verdachtde
  • Suspect dangereuxfr
  • Suspect - Presunto colpevoleit

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