Suspect

About Suspect

When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and mute. But when public defender Kathleen Riley is assigned to his case, she begins to believe that Anderson may actually be innocent.

Suspect is a 1987 crime thriller film directed by Peter Yates. Cher appears as Kathleen Riley, Dennis Quaid as Eddie Sanger, Liam Neeson as Carl Wayne Anderson, and John Mahoney as Judge Matthew Bishop Helms.

It runs 121 minutes and was released in October 1987. Written by Eric Roth.

Shelv files it under courtroom, government, right and justice, and jurors. It streams on Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel in the United States. It scores 6.6 out of 10 from 256 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.

A Time to Kill, The Rainmaker, and Anatomy of a Murder make useful companions to Suspect, all filed under lawyer.