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jo Movie Review Presumed Innocent falls short By DIAHANN NADEAU Herald Special Scott gripping cour troom dramamurder mystery has lot something in its translation to the big screen Gone are some of the complexities of personality and passion that made the book so hard to put down Without these shadings Presum ed Innocent the movie doesnt quite convey the anger betrayal and uncontrolled lust that lit up the book This is unfortunate because it certainly cuts down on the im pact of the story and of the denouement However Presumed Innocent is still a good movie a very drama It just isnt a great movie Harrison Ford plays Rusty Sabich a straight arrow deputy prosecuting attorney in a big city His boss Raymond Horgan Brian Dennehy is running for re election after years on the job Horgan shouldnt lose but a brutal murder happens at the wrong time and upsets Horgans chances The sexy and savvy prosecuting attorney Carolyn Polliemus Greta Scacchi is killed in her apart ment If Horgan cant protect his own attorneys from murder how can he protect the rest of the city goes the opponents rhetoric Rusty is appointed to head the in vestigation Theres only one pro blem Rusty bad an affair with Carolyn and has not lost his obses sion for her The election loss sets in motion something far more heartstunning thana change of office Sabich is off the case and suddenly all the evidence casts him as The Murderer Before Sabich can digest this hes on trial for murder The big question in the movie and the book is did he in deed do it Could out intense hero be the murderer One of the major flaws in the movie is that the affair is not given the weight and atten tion it deserves to give us reason to believe that Rusty would and could have done the deed You cant fit a whole book in a twohour movie but you must be careful about what you choose to discard The trial takes up a lot of the movie and is fairly well done but again lacks the complexities of the novel The ending- has been done differently and to my mind far less skillfully than the book Who knows why director Alan J decided to alter it There is a loss of impact and a crucial twist is not included Ford is incredibly intense as the man never cracks a smile Its a good performance but it doesnt offer a lot of variety Bonnie is excellent as his wife Barbara a character who was far better developed in the book Scacchi is beautiful and sexy but about years too young for the role The character of Carolyn has been completely altered by this age change is as good as always as Horgan and Raul Julia is silky and lowkeyed as Sandy Stern the brilliant defense attorney John Spencer is terrific as Detective Lipranzer fLip and Paul hams it up as Lyttle a judge given to hamming it up Presumed Innocent could have been a better movie theres no doubt about it A lot of blame has to go to Alan J Pakula for his bare- bones screenplay and his soulless direction But fortunately the cast and the story are better than the director and thus 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