Reversal of Fortune

JEREMY IRONS... 1990 ACADEMY AWARD WINNER "BEST ACTOR" REVERSAL OF FORTUNE A TRUE STORY 27 December, 1979. Enormously wealthy American heiress Sunny von Bulow lapses into an insulin induced coma. 16 March, 1982. Her enigmatic European husband, Claus von Bulow, is charged with her murder... It was a trial that captured the world's attention... Was Claus von Bulow a savage murderer or simply a lap-dog husband of a suicidal neurotic? Defence attorney Alan Dershowitz is hired to prove von Bulow's innocence. Fighting against public hatred of the icy aristocrat and his stepchildren 's claim that Claus tried to kill their mother, Dershowitz and his team battle to unearth new evidence that could demolish the entire case and reverse the jury's verdict. Starring Jeremy Irons in his Oscar winning role as von Bulow, Glenn Close and Ron Silver,' Reversal of Fortune' is the suspenseful and critically acclaimed account of one of the decade's most notorious murder trials. © Sovereign Pictures