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Guilty by Suspicion (1991)
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Overview
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Irwin Winkler (written by)
Release Date:
15 March 1991 (USA)
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Tagline:
All it took was a whisper.
Plot:
David Merrill (Robert De Niro), a fictitious 1950s Hollywood director, returns from filming abroad...
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2 wins
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Excellent re-telling of a dark period in America
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Robert De Niro | ... | David Merrill | |
| Annette Bening | ... | Ruth Merrill | |
| George Wendt | ... | Bunny Baxter | |
| Patricia Wettig | ... | Dorothy Nolan | |
| Sam Wanamaker | ... | Felix Graff | |
| Luke Edwards | ... | Paulie Merrill | |
| Chris Cooper | ... | Larry Nolan | |
| Ben Piazza | ... | Darryl Zanuck | |
| Martin Scorsese | ... | Joe Lesser | |
| Barry Primus | ... | Bert Alan | |
| Gailard Sartain | ... | Chairman Wood | |
| Robin Gammell | ... | Congressman Tavenner | |
| Brad Sullivan | ... | Congressman Velde | |
| Tom Sizemore | ... | Ray Karlin | |
| Roxann Dawson | ... | Felicia Barron (as Roxann Biggs) |
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La liste noire (France)
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105 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Iceland:L |
Canada:PG (Ontario) |
Australia:M |
Finland:S |
Germany:12 |
Spain:T |
Sweden:11 |
UK:15 |
USA:PG-13 |
Singapore:PG
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Blacklisted writer/director Abraham Polonsky wrote the original screenplay for the film. When Irwin Winkler decided to rewrite the script by changing De Niro's character from a Communist to a more generic Liberal, Polonsky had his name removed from the film's credits. "I wanted it to be about Communists because that's the way it really happened. ... They didn't need another story about a man who was falsely accused," he said in an interview in the New York Times.
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Anachronisms: There is a Milwaukee Braves baseball pennant on the wall of Merrill's son's room. This film takes place in 1951 and 1952. The Braves didn't move to Milwaukee from Boston until 1953.
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Ruth Merrill:
Uh, I'm seeing Dorothy tonight. Paulie's gonna stay at his friends. I thought I'd take her to one of those places out by Malibu.
David Merrill: Malibu, can you afford that?
Ruth Merrill: Can you believe you said that?
David Merrill: No, I'd never say anything like that.
Ruth Merrill: Wanna go?
David Merrill: Sure, do you mind?
Ruth Merrill: Yeah.
[she leaves]
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David Merrill: Malibu, can you afford that?
Ruth Merrill: Can you believe you said that?
David Merrill: No, I'd never say anything like that.
Ruth Merrill: Wanna go?
David Merrill: Sure, do you mind?
Ruth Merrill: Yeah.
[she leaves]
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Movie Connections:
Featured in "Zomergasten: (#9.2)" (1996)
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Soundtrack:
EASY COME, EASY GO
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Robert DeNiro plays David Merrill, a movie director who is 'Zanuck's wonder boy' at Fox as the movie opens. He's been in Europe for awhile so does not know the full impact the HUAC has been exerting on actors in Hollywood. Zanuck asks David to 'purge himself' so instructs him to meet with a man who has a lot of questions for him, all having to do with people he might or might not know (real actors names are mentioned in this scene) and DeNiro complies, but only to a point, because his best friend Bunny Baxter (George Wendt) is the last name on the 'list.' David can't deal with any of it anymore and storms out of the meeting.
Eventually he finds out the hard way that because he is being uncooperative, he is being portrayed as a Communist sympathizer and cannot get anymore work as a director in movies so he moves to New York to try to get work in the theatre.
Movie has a strange feel to it. There is something underlying in almost every scene, a strange current that flows through the movie because so much of this is about what is unsaid, what is damaging and what is the right thing to do. Husbands betray wives, best friends name best friends, and no one knows how to destroy this thing that has invaded them.
DeNiro, Annette Bening, George Wendt and Chris Cooper are riveting. Sam Wanamaker, Martin Scorsese, Tom Sizemore and Ben Piazza are very good in small roles. Patricia Wettig goes slightly over the top as an actress whose child was taken from her.
Not fun, but worth seeing, and for fans of old cars, DeNiro drives around in the most beautiful white convertible you've ever seen. Wish I knew what type of car it is! 8/10.