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Title:Movie Reviews and Discussion
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Created:Thu Jan 28 1993
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
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219.0. "Benefit of the Doubt" by 49438::BARTAK (Andrea Bartak, Vienna, Austria) Wed Jun 16 1993 07:48

    This movie will start here in Friday. As they do much PR for it,
    I wonder why I do not find it here in MOVIES ? It makes me assume it was
    a flop in US ?
    
    It stars Donald Sutherland and Amy Irving as his daughter. From
    the previews it seems to be a story of revenge between father
    and daughter. 
    
    Anyone seen it ?
    Andrea
    
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219.149438::BARTAKAndrea Bartak, Vienna, AustriaTue Jun 29 1993 05:1722
    Referring to my own .0  - now I've seen it myself.
    
    Donald Sutherland plays the father who has been arrested for 22 years
    because of murder of his wife. Amy Irving is his daughter, now living
    alone with her 11 year old son, working as a waitress in a bar. The
    father claimed that it was not murder, but an accident, but the
    daughter (at this time a little girl) gave evidence against him and
    therefore he was sentenced. 
    The father is released from prison and wants to make peace with
    his daugther and tries to gain the love of her little son. Although
    first the daugther does not want any contact with her father and also
    forbids her son to meet with him, after some time he's able to
    gain her trust again and to make her doubt that he was guilty. For some
    time everything seems to be fine....
    
    A good performance of Donald Sutherland and Amy Irving (btw, what was
    she doing the last years ? ). But the plot was so predictable ! I
    always waited that something unforseen happened, but it did not.
     
    **.5 of *****
    
    Andrea