Warner Archive will add to its Blu-ray catalog Barbet Schroeder's film
Reversal of Fortune (1990), starring Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Ron Silver, Annabella Sciorra, and Uta Hagen. Currently, the release is set to arrive on the market on October 13.
Synopsis: Did European aristocrat Claus von Bulow (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 Bulow. Everybody hates you.
Written for the screen by Nicholas Kazan (Fallen, At Close Range), directed by Barbet Schroeder (Single White Female) and based on Dershowitz's book,
Reversal of Fortune is the acclaimed filmization of events that had all of America talking. For his precise portrait of icy brittleness, Irons won the Best Actor Academy Award as well as the Los Angeles and National Society of Film Critics Awards. Think you know the truth? Until you watch you have no idea.