Crimes and Misdemeanors(1989)
It's about love and reality. Faith and delusion. Good and evil. Success and failure.
A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss.
Movie: Crimes and Misdemeanors
Top 10 Billed Cast
Cliff Stern
Judah Rosenthal
Halley Reed
Lester
Dolores Paley
Wendy Stern
Ben
Jack Rosenthal
Barbara
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