High Crimes

High Crimes
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Carl Franklin
Screenplay by	Yuri Zeltser Grace Cary Bickley
Based on	High Crimes by Joseph Finder
Produced by	Jesse Beaton Arnon Milchan Janet Yang
Starring	Ashley Judd Morgan Freeman Jim Caviezel Amanda Peet Tom Bower
Cinematography	Theo van de Sande
Edited by	Carole Kravetz-Aykanian
Music by	Graeme Revell
Production companies	Regency Enterprises Manifest Film Company Monarch Pictures
Distributed by	Fox Searchlight Pictures
Release date	April 5, 2002 (2002-04-05)
Running time	115 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$42 million[1]
Box office	$63.8 million[1]

High Crimes is a 2002 American legal thriller film directed by Carl Franklin and starring Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman, reunited from the 1997 film Kiss the Girls. The plot follows the successful criminal defense lawyer whose husband is arrested and accused of being the source of a shooting that killed nine people in El Salvador in 1988. An investigation reveals her husband was then a member of the United States Marine Corps, operating under a different name. The stakes are high as her client faces up to a life sentence for murder. The screenplay by Yuri Zeltser and Grace Cary Bickley is based on Joseph Finder's 1998 novel of the same name.