• Did European aristocrat Claus von Bülow (Jeremy Irons) try to murder his wife Sunny (Glenn Close) at their luxurious Newport mansion in 1980? Tabloids of the day had their opinions. “You have one thing in your favor,” defense attorney Alan Dershowitz (Ron Silver) told von Bülow. “Everybody hates you.” Based on the book by Alan Dershowitz.

    "The brilliantly elegant Reversal Of Fortune is perhaps the most potent screen satire of the upper class since Citizen Kane."

    - DAVID DENBY, New York Magazine

  • Director: Barbet Schroeder

    Screenplay: Barbet Schroeder

    Cast: Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Ron Silver, Christine Baranski, Uta Hagen, Fisher Stevens, Felicity Huffman, Annabella Sciorra

    Executive Producer: Michael Rauch

    Co-Producer: Nicholas Kazan, Elon Dershowitz

    Associate Producers: Diane Schneier, Michael Flynn

    Distributor: Warner Bros.

  • PRESS

    New York Times review by Vincent Canby, October 17, 1990

    AWARDS

    Won:

    Best Actor in a Leading Role (Jeremy Irons)/Academy Awards, 1991

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture—Drama (Jeremy Irons)/Golden Globes, 1991

    Nominated:

    Best Director (Barbet Schroeder), Best Screenplay, Writing Based on Material from Another Medium (Nicholas Kazan)/Academy Awards, 1991

    Best Motion Picture—Drama, Best Director (Barbet Schroeder), Best Screenplay—Motion Picture (Nicholas Kazan)/Golden Globes, 1991

    Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Nicholas Kazan)/Writers Guild of America, 1991