Wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous Ted Crawford, a structural engineer in Los Angeles, shoots his wife and entraps her lover. He signs a confession; at the arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hotshot who’s soon to join a fancy civil-law firm, told by everyone it’s an open and shut case. Crawford sees Beachum’s weakness, the hairline fracture of his character: Willy’s a winner. The engineer sets in motion a clockwork crime with all the objects moving in ways he predicts.
Release Date: 20 April 2007Runtime: 113 min
Stars:
- Anthony Hopkins
- Billy Burke
- Bob Gunton
- Cliff Curtis
- David Strathairn
- Embeth Davidtz
- Fiona Shaw
- Gary Carlos Cervantes
- Josh Stamberg
- Judith Scott
- Petrea Burchard
- Rosamund Pike
- Ryan Gosling
- Xander Berkeley
- Zoe Kazan
Director: Gregory Hoblit