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Certificate 15

Cast Glenn Close Jeremy Irons Ron Silver

Directors Barbet Schroeder

Screenwriters Alan M Dershowitz Nicholas Kazan

Running Time 111 minutes

Reversal of Fortune
The famous case of Sunny von Bulow

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Plot
In 1981, fabulously wealthy American heiress, Sunny von Bulow, collapsed in a coma on the bathroom floor of her opulent mansion. She remains in that coma today. Her husband Claus, a European aristocrat, was found guilty of her attempted murder but, hiring Professor Alan Dershowitz, a famous and distinguished legal expert, to appeal against sentence, the charges were subsequently dropped.

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