An enterprising fellow even retouched one of the Reeve-in-a-wheelchair shots to add a cervical collar. Those who wonder to what depths photographers can sink might envision them pouring over tapes of this film in order to get pictures of Reeve in a wheelchair or hospital bed. The week after Reeve's accident, supermarket tabloid covers were splashed with photos lifted from Above Suspicion. The whole film does a credible job of recreating the rivalries and loyalties inevitable within any police department. And Joe Montegna is terrific as the old-line gumshoe with a hangdog face who trusts his instincts more than high tech. Kim Cattrall is so purely despicable as his wife that she could serve as poster girl for all that sick or injured people might hope to avoid in a mate. He is convincing both as the in-command ace detective and as the paralyzed hero who cannot tolerate life in a chair. I hate to use the word, but Christopher Reeve is "perfect" in the role of Dempsey Cain. The remainder of the film is a fascinating cat and mouse game which includes my two favorite scenes in the film: a battle of wits between the two men over a paperweight that's not where it should be and a stunning courtroom confrontation near the end of the film. However, his old rival, Rhinehart, smells a rat and becomes obsessed with proving that Dempsey is not the hero everyone else thinks he is. Suffice to say that Dempsey's advice to his son who is struggling in Little League: "The power you have to direct your mind is the greatest power you have" sets the stage for what's to come and there are some shocking developments that bring even more sympathy to Dempsey. It would be a crime to say much more about what happens. He sinks into alcohol and depression, becoming in his wife's words "a depressed hulk in a wheelchair."ĭempsey turns suicidal and enlists his reluctant brother and not-so-reluctant wife in a desperate plan that he believes will be for the greater good of all.
But a perfect man cannot live this imperfect existence. Above Suspicion follows Dempsey through surgery, rehab, and his eventual hero's discharge from the department. In the confusion, Dempsey takes a bullet to the spine which paralyzes him from the waist down and viewers enter a part of this film that can be almost unbearable to watch.
A typical Nick screwup (he forgot to turn his beeper off) alerts the suspects and they scatter. Thanks to the prints Dempsey lifted, the shooters are quickly identified and the police move in on the apartment where they are holed up. But when he dials his mobile phone to bring his policeman brother in on the case, we soon learn that Dempsey's wife, apparently fed up with all that perfection is having a sexual encounter with his decidedly imperfect younger brother, Nick. Furthermore, he lives with his beautiful wife and adorable son in a perfect house and neighborhood.
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When he asks that a portable laser be brought down to look for fingerprints, Rhinehart scoffs: "You can't get prints off concrete." (Dempsey gets the laser and the prints). An ex-Navy test pilot, he's up on all the latest technical stuff. Dempsey's colleague, Detective Rhinehart, sarcastically comments "Oh look, the cavalry has arrived." This should be Rhinehart's case, but it is given to Dempsey - clearly the Golden Boy of the department. Homicide detective Dempsey Cain (Reeve) pulls up and immediately begins barking orders. Two rookie cops have been killed and the police are moving in to secure the crime scene. The film begins with gunshots and the sound of wailing sirens. I can't live my life as half a man.", it is a taut, beautifully acted drama. Obviously Above Suspicion is a film burdened with heavy emotional baggage, but how does it rate as entertainment? For those who can bear to watch Christopher Reeve say lines like: "I want to die. By unbelievably tragic coincidence, Reeve played in that film - his last role before he was injured - a police officer who was paralyzed after being shot in the line of duty. A few hours later HBO aired, as previously scheduled, a film starring Reeve that had debuted only a week earlier: Above Suspicion.
John Jane of the University of Virginia Medical Center confirmed for the first time in a news conference that Reeve was indeed paralyzed from the neck down and unable to breathe without the aid of a ventilator. On the evening news, Wednesday, May 31, 1995, five days after Christopher Reeve was injured in an equestrian accident, Dr.
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