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Will You Doubt Beyond A Reasonable Doubt On DVD?
By Perri Nemiroff: 2009-10-20 16:48:06
Remember the 1956 film noir Beyond A Reasonable Doubt? Well, somebody remade it, and it hits DVD and Blu-ray on December 22nd. I don’t want to knock the film without having seen it, but for a Michael Douglas movie to get the straight-to-DVD treatment, something must be wrong.
The Fritz Lang original told the story of a newspaper publisher who recruits his soon-to-be son-in-law, Tom, to bring down a decorated district attorney with a history of tampering with evidence. The plan is to frame Tom for murder, and when he goes to trial, to humiliate the D.A. It sounds simple, but unforeseen problems put Tom in danger of being executed. According to Anchor Bay’s synopsis, the new version follows a very similar plot. A young reporter, C.J. Nicholas (Jesse Metcalfe), works to expose District Attorney Mark Hunter’s (Douglas) tendency to manipulate evidence. Amber Tamblyn plays Assistant D.A. Ella Crystal (Amber Tamblyn) who’s in a relationship with C.J. but isn’t aware of what he’s up to. Other than the fact that Tamblyn’s character sounds more like a porn star than a woman of the law, the movies seems to have potential. Douglas is flawless and Tamblyn typically delivers, so that leaves the skepticism in Metcalfe’s lap. He gets the job done on Desperate Housewives and in John Tucker Must Die, but his talent as the neighborhood heartthrob may not translate to courtroom drama. If you’d like to give Beyond A Reasonable Doubt a shot, it’ll cost you $29.98 for the DVD or $34.98 for the BD. Both versions come with audio commentary with writer/director/cinematographer Peter Hyams and Metcalfe, the making-of featurette “The Whole Truth,” “Criminal Forensics – The Burden of Proof,” and the theatrical trailer.
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