High Crimes

A defense attorney is pulled into a case that turns her marriage into a legal and moral crisis. After learning that her husband has been living under a hidden identity, she is forced to confront accusations that he vanished from the military and was tied to a massacre in El Salvador. As she takes on his defense, the case opens into a wider claim of cover-up and deception.

The film was released in 2002 and runs 115 minutes. It is a U.S.-Chinese production in English, and its story is built around a military courtroom battle rather than a conventional crime case. Ashley Judd leads the film as the attorney who must decide how far to trust the man she loves. Morgan Freeman appears as the lawyer who becomes part of the defense, while James Caviezel plays the husband at the center of the accusations.

Set against military institutions and the pressure of a public trial, the film moves between personal loyalty and institutional secrecy. Its tone blends suspense with legal drama, creating a tense atmosphere in which private trust and official authority keep colliding. The result is a thriller shaped by doubt, duty and the fear that the truth may be harder to prove than the lie.