Above Suspicion

About Above Suspicion

The chilling true story of a newly married FBI 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.

Above Suspicion (2019) is a crime thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce. At 104 minutes long, it arrived in June 2019.

Its themes are corruption, true crime, murder investigation, and drug trafficking. The story is adapted from real events.

Emilia Clarke takes the lead as Susan Smith, Jack Huston as Mark Putnam, Johnny Knoxville as Cash, and Thora Birch as Jolene. The screenplay is by Chris Gerolmo. Produced by Bold Films. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and Lionsgate+ Amazon Channel.

Killers of the Flower Moon, Black Mass, and White Boy Rick make useful companions to Above Suspicion, all filed under FBI. TMDB voters put it at 5.9 out of 10 across 321 votes and it carries a R rating.