Above Suspicion
Posted in 2021, Crime, excluding North America, Featured, January 2021, True Story, Worldwide on September 30th, 2020
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 foundations of the nation’s top law enforcement agency, ending in the first ever conviction of an F.B.I. Agent for murder.
Genre: Crime, true story
Rights: Worldwide, excluding North America
R/T: 104
Rating: R
Director: Phillip Noyce (Patriot Games, The Bone Collector)
Writers: Chris Gerolmo (Golden Globe nom for Mississippi Burning), Joe Sharkey
Cast: Emilia Clarke (won 4 Emmys for Game of Thrones), Jack Huston (American Hustle, Fargo [series]), Sophie Lowe (Blow the Man Down, Beautiful Kate)
Language: English