Hammerman Ikon

Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Reversal of Fortune
1990
**
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, Ron Silver, Annabella Sciorra, Uta Hagen

An incredibly uninteresting true story about an aristocrat who was accused of attempting to murder his wife. There's some intriguing ambiguity as to his guilt, but the film is helplessly dull. Jeremy Irons won an Academy Award, probably because he plays a character with an accent. Based on Alan Dershowitz's book Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow Case.