Suspect (1987)
Directed by Peter Yates
When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and mute. But when public defender Kathleen Riley is assigned to his case, she begins to believe that Anderson may actually be innocent. Juror Eddie Sanger, a Washington lobbyist, agrees, and together the pair begins their own investigation of events.
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What critics compared Suspect to
To my mind, "Forrest Gump" seems more in spirit like "The World According to Garp," though in this case an attempt by director Robert Zemeckis ("Who Framed Roger Rabbit," the "Back to the Future" movies) and screenwriter Eric Roth ("Suspect," "Mr.
Admirers of Winston Groom's 1986 novel may be startled to find that very little of its tone has survived in the screenplay by Eric Roth ("Suspect," "Mr.