Hackman has been visiting websites advertising extremely young women, while he accuses Belluci of having an affair with her brother-in-law.

Gene Hackman’s wife Monica Bellucci becomes involved and slowly the strained nature of their marriage comes to light. They let him go back to finish his speech, but bring him back after. Morgan Freeman’s superiors don’t want the trouble of arresting a well-respected and rich man. He changes his story and can’t account for details, but it is only when it turns out another young girl had recently been found in the same condition that he realizes that the detective played by Morgan Freeman suspects him. Although nothing directly links Hackman to the murder, his behavior is strange. It turns out that the day before, he had discovered the body of a young girl who had been raped and murdered. He is about to give a speech before the annual San Sebastián Festival when the local police call him in for questioning. As the film begins, Gene Hackman plays a wealthy and respected attorney in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Perhaps Under Suspicion was just too much for audiences. It must have seemed like a decent time to release something like Under Suspicion. In the year 2000 alone, the bizarro horror satire American Psycho, Robert Zemeckis’ Hitchcock homage What Lies Beneath, and Christopher Nolan’s chronologically-challenged mystery Memento were released. The early 2000s were a good time for weird thrillers.

It was initially screened out of competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, and frankly, might have simply been too grim for mainstream audiences.īut no one in the film, even Morgan Freeman, can be faulted for thinking otherwise. Based on the 1981 French film Garde à vue (which was itself adapted from British author John Wainwright’s novel Brainwash), it is a dark, sordid exploration of trust, murder, and suspicion. Most likely, it is that Under Suspicion is actually a great movie.

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