It was definitely a chance of pace role for Reeve and he really seems to enjoy playing a scheming villain for once. Everyone in the film thinks of Dempsey as being Superman but he instead reveals himself to be Lex Luthor. Above Suspicion makes clever use of Reeve’s good guy image but casting him as someone who everyone thinks is a hero but who actually has a very dark side to his personality. Knowing that Reeve would spend the final nine years of his life paralyzed from the neck down can make it difficult to watch Above Suspicion, which is unfortunate because this film features what might be Reeve’s best performance.Īs an actor, Christopher Reeve was always typecast as Superman and he definitely missed out on some roles as a mistake. Just a week after the film first aired on HBO, Christopher Reeve was suffered the spinal chord injury that left him confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
Produced for HBO, Above Suspicion is a clever and twisty film noir that, unfortunately, never escapes the shadow of Reeve’s real-life tragedy. It looks like the perfect murder but Detective Alan Reinhardt (Joe Mantegna) is determined to solve the case. However, it turns out that Dempsey isn’t as naive as they assumed and he still has a few tricks of his own. Because Gail and Nick are secretly lovers and want Dempsey out of the way, they agree. He comes up with a plan for his wife and brother to stage a break-in and murder him. He tells Gail and Nick that he no longer wants to live but that his life insurance policy doesn’t cover suicide. When a now-paralyzed Dempsey returns home, he deals with his depression by drinking and contemplating suicide. While Dempsey’s in the hospital, Nick has an affair with Dempsey’s wife, Gail (Kim Cattrall). Nick also happens to be Dempsey’s younger brother.
Dempsey Cain (Christopher Reeve) is a former test pilot turned homicide detective who ends up getting shot because of the incompetence of another cop, a patrolman named Nick Cain (Edward Kerr).
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