Sunday, December 11, 2011
High Crimes
- full length audio commentary by the director
- 6 never before seen featurettes
- original theatrical trailer
"The perfect follow-up to Krakauer's riveting account of a per! fect storm."
--Miami Herald
"Kodas's absorbing description of the narrow moral compass governing human interaction at the top of the world is bound to shock both armchair adventurers and seasoned mountaineers."
--Chicago Tribune
"(Kodas) discovered more deceit, thievery, and double-crossing among his climbers than you find in a Martin Scorsese gangster film. High Crimes is both an adventure story and an exposé of a sport riddled with danger and corruption."
--Washington Post Book World
"Kodas's descriptions of the struggles confronting even the best-prepared climbers leave the reader breathless."
--Dallas Morning News
"[High Crimes] is hair-raising and lays bare the excitement and fear that face great explorers at the top of the world. . . . Well written, and as deftly plotted as the finest mystery novel, Kodas brings to life a disturbing picture of society at high alti! tude."
--Austin Chronicle
"Kodas doe! s an exc ellent job exposing the ways in which money and ego have corrupted the traditional cultures of both mountaineers and their Sherpa guides. . . . His narrative is as hard to turn away from as a slow-motion train wreck."
--Publishers Weekly
High Crimes is journalist Michael Kodas's gripping account of life on top of the world--where man is every bit as deadly as Mother Nature.
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 1-SEP-2009
Media Type: Blu-RayA welcomed reunion of Kiss the Girls costars Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman makes High Crimes a worthwhile thriller with vivid, likable characters. Efficiently directed by Carl Franklin, this military mystery doesn't have the unpredictable edginess of Franklin's Devil in a Blue Dress, but its twisting plot is sure to hold anyone's attention. Judd plays a successful, happily married lawyer whose husband (Jim Caviezel) is accused of killing in! nocent citizens during his military service in El Salvador some 13 years earlier. A cover-up implicates a powerful Brigadier General (Bruce Davison), but when Judd hires a maverick attorney (Freeman), Judd is caught in a potentially lethal trap of threats and deception. Attentive viewers will stay ahead of the action, and alleged villains are posed as obvious decoys. Still, Judd and Freeman have an appealing rapport (shared with Amanda Peet, playing Judd's vivacious sister), and Freeman's character flaws add worldly spice to yet another rich performance. --Jeff Shannon
Meet Claire Heller Chapman. A criminal defense attorney whoâs made a name for herself by taking onâ"and winningâ"the toughest cases, Claire still manages to have a relatively calm life as a Harvard Law School professor, devoted wife, and proud mother to six-year-old Annie. Until one night, when the family is out having dinner, a team of government agents bursts onto the sceneâ¦heading ! straight for Claireâs husband.
Tom Chapman has been ar! rested f or an atrocious crime he swears he did not commit. Claire is desperate to believe himâ"and prove his innocenceâ"even when she learns that Tom once had a different name. And a different face. Now, in a top-secret court-martial conducted by the Pentagon, Claire will put everything on the line to defend the man she loves. But as the evidence keeps piling up, the less she knows who her husband really isâ¦and the more he appears to be a cold-blooded murderer.
Meet Claire Heller Chapman. A criminal defense attorney whoâs made a name for herself by taking onâ"and winningâ"the toughest cases, Claire still manages to have a relatively calm life as a Harvard Law School professor, devoted wife, and proud mother to six-year-old Annie. Until one night, when the family is out having dinner, a team of government agents ! bursts onto the sceneâ¦heading straight for Claireâs husban! d.
Tom Chapman has been arrested for an atrocious crime he swears he did not commit. Claire is desperate to believe himâ"and prove his innocenceâ"even when she learns that Tom once had a different name. And a different face. Now, in a top-secret court-martial conducted by the Pentagon, Claire will put everything on the line to defend the man she loves. But as the evidence keeps piling up, the less she knows who her husband really isâ¦and the more he appears to be a cold-blooded murderer.
Meet Claire Heller Chapman. A criminal defense attorney whoâs made a name for herself by taking onâ"and winningâ"the toughest cases, Claire still manages to have a relatively calm life as a Harvard Law School professor, devoted wife, and proud mother to six-year-old Annie. Until one night, when the family is out having dinn! er, a team of government agents bursts onto the sceneâ¦headin! g straig ht for Claireâs husband.
Tom Chapman has been arrested for an atrocious crime he swears he did not commit. Claire is desperate to believe himâ"and prove his innocenceâ"even when she learns that Tom once had a different name. And a different face. Now, in a top-secret court-martial conducted by the Pentagon, Claire will put everything on the line to defend the man she loves. But as the evidence keeps piling up, the less she knows who her husband really isâ¦and the more he appears to be a cold-blooded murderer.