Think of this movie as a very abridged version of the novel trying to cram in a lot of character and plot development with a lot of very competent actors. Trurow's novel was long and dealt with all the legal details unfolding with tremendous justice and competence. group come up with Barbara's revenge premise. This is messy and the Sabich family is not appealing. I'm not sure how he attacks the story but I'd definitely make Molto the protagonist. I get the explanation but it needs to be physically shown. The computer thing needs to be more clearly explained. The audience needs to learn what Molto learns. The audience needs to know only what Molto knows. There is a good reason for the accusation and a previous affair led to a big media trial.

His clerk Anna Vostick provokes accusation of infidelity. There is tension below the surface of his perfect job, their perfect marriage, and perfect family. Tommy Molto (Richard Schiff) reluctantly allows Jimmy Brand to investigated despite the possibility of another humiliation from a Rusty case. He didn't report it for 24 hours and suspicion mounts against him. Judge Rusty Sabich (Bill Pullman) is found with his dead wife Barbara (Marcia Gay Harden) in their bed. I hope that the next time Scott Turow gets an movie offer on one of his great books, that he holds out for a miniseries instead. There are some good performances, but the script is just too skeletal to do justice to this story. Unfortunately, though the movie isn't awful, I can't think of any reason to recommend it.

There was no way for them to compress so much character development and plot into such a small space. The movie was probably less than 90 minutes, if you take out the commercial breaks. The recorded version of the book is 14 hours long, and none of that time was wasted or boring. While the movie was competently made, it lacked most of the detail that makes Turow's books so rich and interesting. I watched this movie shortly after reading the book. It's too bad that you can see almost none of this in the TV movie version of Innocent. In his fictional world of Kindle county, even the peripheral figures have great,textured back-stories. Scott Turow is an amazing writer because of his ability to give full, rich, textured lives to most of the characters in a book.

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