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  • 2021
  • R
  • Altitude Film Entertainment
  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2021
  • R
  • Altitude Film Entertainment
  • 1 h 44 m

Summary The chilling true story of a newly married F.B.I. poster boy assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There he is drawn into an illicit affair with an impoverished local woman who becomes his star informant. She sees in him her means of escape; instead, it's a ticket to disaster for both of them. This scandal shook the found...

Directed By: Phillip Noyce

Written By: Joe Sharkey, Chris Gerolmo

  • 2021
  • R
  • Altitude Film Entertainment
  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2021
  • R
  • Altitude Film Entertainment
  • 1 h 44 m

Above Suspicion

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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User Score Mixed or Average Based on 6 User Ratings
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Summary The chilling true story of a newly married F.B.I. poster boy assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There he is drawn into an illicit affair with an impoverished local woman who becomes his star informant. She sees in him her means of escape; instead, it's a ticket to disaster for both of them. This scandal shook the found...

Directed By: Phillip Noyce

Written By: Joe Sharkey, Chris Gerolmo

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Metascore
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33% Negative
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60
Jul 14, 2020
Chris Gerolmo’s script isn’t at great pains to find the human factor here, and Phillip Noyce’s direction coats the whole unhappy affair in cold blue steel.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
60
Jul 14, 2020
Though tech values and supporting performances (especially Knoxville's) are unimpeachable, Suspicion doesn't conjure its setting as persuasively as some of the other drug-centric rural dramas we've seen lately.
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60
Jul 13, 2020
What Above Suspicion lacks in flashy direction, it makes up for in strong performances and gripping true-life material to draw from.
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50
May 6, 2021
This halfway-there thriller still makes an excellent showcase for Emilia Clarke, shedding whatever “Game of Thrones” baggage she has left and hinting at the dangerous places she might yet take us.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 16, 2021
A reality-based hillbilly thriller that can’t decide what flavour of noir to serve up, Above Suspicion is one of those curious failures that the current appetite for home streaming often rescues from theatrical limbo.
By Jim Slotek FULL REVIEW
30
May 25, 2021
True crime buffs could find something here, but they might be better off reading the novel it's based on. Susan Smith's story deserved to be told, but there had to have been a better way to do it.
By Rachel LaBonte FULL REVIEW
25
May 5, 2021
For all the star’s efforts, though, Above Suspicion will mostly just appeal to the crowd that found Hillbilly Elegy compelling. Everyone else will be left wishing they could see Khaleesi fly high and free again.
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Production Company Sierra / Affinity, Colleen Camp Productions, White Knight, MTAF Productions, Bold Films
Release Date May 7, 2021
Duration 1 h 44 m
Rating R
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