Against the wishes of seemingly everyone around him, Rhinehart launches an investigation of his own, convinced there's more at play than a casual glance would suggest. He's so well-respected that no one suspects that anything nefarious could possibly be bubbling beneath the surface. The tables are turned, and Dempsey appears to have committed the perfect murder. Needless to say for a movie like this, things don't quite go according to the established plan. Dempsey enlists his brother and wife's assistance in engineering this elaborate scheme, assigning them the weighty task of pulling the trigger and delivering the fatal shots. Any attempt at suicide would deprive his family of financial stability, but if he were murdered in, say, a robbery gone wrong, that'd be a $2 million insurance payday. Four of the suspects are quickly subdued, but Nick's inability to sufficiently search for the elusive fifth leaves his brother with a bullet in the base of his spine.ĭempsey, now bound to a wheelchair, finds life unbearable as "half a man" and falls into a deep, alcohol-fueled depression. As they prepare to burst into the suspects' seedy apartment, Nick's beeper goes off, alerting the criminals to their presence and sending them scattering. Dempsey's unconventional methods had directly led to the identification of the murderers, much to the chagrin of bitter street cop Rhinehart (Joe Mantegna).
Nick's perpetual screwing-up botches an investigation into the murder of a police officer by some Mexican drug-runners. This is in sharp contrast to his brother Nick (Edward Kerr), who squandered his inheritance, has failed to make any headway as a cop, and seizes every possible opportunity to screw his sister-in-law Gail (Kim Cattrall).
In the space of ten years, Dempsey quickly rose through the ranks in law enforcement, currently enjoying a prestigious position as a homicide detective.
Not to be confused with the 2000 Scott Bakula flick of the same name, Above Suspcicion stars Christopher Reeve as Dempsey Cain, a former Navy test pilot whose tenacity and eye for detail have netted him a palatial home, an attractive wife, and a career at which he excels.
0 kommentar(er)
