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‘Presumed Innocent’ Is A Tale Of Two Trials – In Court & At Home, Star Jake Gyllenhaal Says – Tribeca Festival
Two trials play out in the new Apple TV+ adaptation of lawyer-novelist Scott Turow’s 1988 bestselling legal thriller, Presumed Innocent.
As the investigation progresses and the depth of Sabich’s obsession with his murdered paramour becomes clear, the once-respected prosecutor finds colleagues turning against him along with the machinery of the judicial system to which he’s given his working life. In the first two episodes, the audience sees Polhemus, played by Renate Reinsve, in flashbacks that reveal the intensity of her affair with Sabich and disclose her own ethically questionable conduct in an earlier murder case with unsettling parallels to her own grisly slaying. In Turow’s telling, the criminal justice system is as imperfect as the people who work in it — the cops, lawyers, investigators, and judges entrusted with searching for the truth and administering the law even when those aims come into conflict.
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