This allows her a semblance of agency, but it creates an odd tension for Clarke’s performance as a woman who already knows what’s going to happen to her, like a reenactment from “Unsolved Mysteries” rather than the growing sense of dread accompanied by her loss of control regarding her attraction to Mark.
Hindsight, as they say, is 20/20, and Chris Gerolmo’s ( Mississippi Burning Citizen X) script chooses to fashion Susan’s story through the dead woman’s retrospective perspective, a la The Lovely Bones.
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Her priceless information leads to Putnam’s professional advancement, but when he attempts to leave Susan behind, things turn deadly. After her brother is involved in a shooting, she nominates herself as an informant, and thus begins a simultaneous affair with the married Mark. When rookie detective Mark Putnam (Jack Huston) finds himself assigned to a small coal mining town Kentucky, his overzealousness to establish himself leads to indiscretion when he meets Susan Smith (Emilia Clarke), a divorced mother of two living with her ex-husband (Johnny Knoxville) while struggling with addiction.
With its continuously recyclable title, all-too familiar plot points, glossy casting and vaguely attenuated realities involving drug addiction and the economically disenfranchised, it’s a disappointingly pedantic offering from the once formidable Noyce. What they have in common is they were all Above Suspicion, a title shared by the latest film from Hollywood studio expat Phillip Noyce, based on Joe Sharkey’s 2017 true crime novel about an undercover FBI agent who engaged in a sexual affair and then murdered his informant in 1988 Kentucky.
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And then Lynda La Plante’s short lived 2009 series featured Kelly Reilly as a tenacious Detective Constable.
Annabella Sciorra suspected husband Scott Bakula of nefarious wrong doings in 2000. Christopher Reeve played a paralyzed cop (shortly before his actual paralysis) using his condition to hide his motive for wanting to kill his adulterous spouse Kim Cattrall in 1995. In 1943, Joan Crawford and John Wayne fought the Nazis. Investigation of a Citizen: Noyce Can’t Get in Formation with True Crime Chronicle