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The Guilty

Anthony WALLER

UK1999 98min 35mm Color

Synopsis

Crane is a successful lawyer on the verge of Becoming a judge when he commits a devastating act. Fuelled by alcohol inspired lust, he assaults Sophie, a beautiful new legal assistant who subsequently threatens to expose him and destroy both his career and his marriage. In the meantime, a young petty criminal named Nathan discovers that Crane is his real father and he sets out to find him. Whilst searching he encounters and befriends Sophie’s roommatee Tanya near Crance’s office and ends up staying at their apartment. It is here that Nathan falls in love with Sophie, oblivious of her connection to her father. A surprise event leads to the first encounter between father and son, the lawyer and the thief. But Crane is not the man that Nathan expected. Ignorant of who he is speaking to and desperate, Crane offers money to kill the young woman who could tear his life apart. The complex chain of events following this proposal, will have dramatic consequences.< The Guilty > is an exciting contemporary thriller by Anthony Waller, the director of < Mute Witness >and < An American Werewolf >in Paris

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Anthony WALLER

Anthony Waller was born in Lebanon is 1957, and entered Britain’s National Film School in 1978. In the 1980’s Waller worked in Gemany as a commercial editor. In 1995 Waller earned acclaim for his first film < Mute Witness >, which he wrote directed, and produced.