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Alan J. Pakula: Harrison Ford
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With increasingly blockbuster-happy audiences less amenable to Pakula's penchant for character study and psychology, his subsequent 1980s features were box-office failures. Pakula's tastes and pop culture auspiciously merged again... with his adaptation of Scott Turow's bestseller Presumed Innocent (1990). Starring Harrison Ford as the accused and Bonnie Bedelia as his betrayed wife, Pakula's version solidly hit all of the novel's twists, while the superb cast helped suggest more complex moral questions underlying the central crime. After his skillful adaptation of John Grisham's legal thriller The Pelican Brief (1993), it became his highest-grossing film and fully revived his Hollywood career. His final film, The Devil's Own (1997), fell prey to production problems and difficulties with stars Ford and Brad Pitt, however, and failed to be either a politically complex story or an effective action thriller. Before he finished writing his adaptation of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt White House history No Ordinary Time, Pakula was killed on the Long Island Expressway when his car hit a pipe kicked up by a truck.
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Beim Filmdrama Sophies Entscheidung (1982) mit Meryl Streep und Kevin Kline wirkte Pakula als Regisseur, Produzent und Drehbuchautor mit. Er wurde 1983 für das Drehbuch für den Oscar und für den Writers Guild of America Award nominiert. Den Thriller Aus Mangel an Beweisen (1990) drehte er mit Harrison Ford und Brian Dennehy, den Thriller Die Akte (1993) mit Julia Roberts und Denzel Washington, den Thriller Vertrauter Feind (1997) mit Harrison Ford und Brad Pitt.
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Only in Presumed Innocent does Pakula recapture some of his earlier success. Despite numerous plot inconsistencies (the legacy of Scott Turow's novel), Presumed Innocent is compelling viewing because Pakula takes pains to fashion a detailed setting (heightened by fine character performances); he ... astutely directs Harrison Ford in the lead role.
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