The Guilty 2000

[Germain Aguilera]

TheGuilty is a 2000 American crime film directed by Anthony Waller and starring Bill Pullman, Devon Sawa, Gabrielle Anwar, Angela Featherstone and Joanne Whalley. The film is a remake of the 1992 UK TV two-part telemovie of the same name and identical plot starring Michael Kitchen, Sean Gallagher, Caroline Catz and Carol Starks.[2]

Callum Crane (Bill Pullman) is in line for appointment to the federal bench, during the same week he rapes a new secretary at his office. It's also the same week Nathan Corrigan (Devon Sawa) (a young, callow ex-con) goes to the city to meet his biological father, the same Callum Crane. They meet and before Nathan can tell Crane who he is, Crane offers him money to kill the secretary, who has threatened to go to the police. Nathan takes an envelope of cash and the woman's photo, tells friends about it, and throws away the envelope. One of the friends, who needs money, retrieves the envelope and sets out to kill the woman. Can Nathan stop the crime?

Callum Crane, a lawyer and would-be federal judge, jeopardizes his chances at a judgeship by forcing himself on his secretary. He then worsens the situation by trying to have the woman murdered. Further complicating matters, he assigns the task to a young man who, unbeknownst to Crane, is actually his son, Nathan. Nathan refuses to do the deed, but not before informing several people, one of whom tries to take on the job.

Bill Pullman Devon Sawa Gabrielle Anwar Angela Featherstone Joanne Whalley Darcy Belsher Jaimz Woolvett Ken Tremblett Gillian Barber Duncan Fraser Bruce Harwood Hiro Kanagawa Garry Chalk Peter Kent Kurt Evans Martin Evans Tegan Moss Taylor Reid John McConnach Mary Black Camilla Overbye Roos Judith Maxie Michelle Harrison D. Harlan Cutshall David Lyle Scott Nicholson Gavin Buhr Anthony Waller

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Lucky new-hire Sophie Lennon: What do I want? Harassed. Propositioned. Raped. And fired within my first WEEK? What more could I possibly want? You know how bad I could make things for you?

Eventual Judge Callum Crane: How? You don't have a chance of proving anything. Since the other night you've been let go, so any fuss you make now is gonna look like cheap revenge. Plus, you're getting a month's pay which is very generous. If I were your lawyer, I'd really have to advise against taking any action. I'm glad we could talk.

A monumental scumbag lawyer/occasional rapist played by Bill Pullman, a pre-Burn Notice Gabrielle Anwar seeking justice and revenge for her rape, a delinquent Devon Sawa: these plot lines collide and pay off quite satisfyingly in the back half. Was only decent at first, but the criss-cross of backstabbing and countermoves escalating through the climax really won me over. There is one excellent suspense sequence too, utilizing space, editing, and intersecting characters with all the knowing flair that Mute Witness displayed so well.

Solid enough crime thriller with a couple of interesting plot twists but overall I felt the cast were let down by the script.

Sophie's rape and subsequent murder becoming a complete afterthought as the movie then switches to a whole blackmail storyline with the introduction of low rent criminals and drug lords with very little mention of Sophie at all in the last act.

...what a mixed bag it is too. Awful start, some ropey acting, kitsch late 90s soundtrack (not in a good way), strange pacing, a story unsure of its antagonist - or protagonist for that matter - and plot contrivances that bang louder than a judge's gavel...

...and yet, the moments of Mute Witness flair are still there and it DOES become more enjoyably daft as it chugs into its second hour. Pullman plays against type well and there's a classy De Palma-esque chase around a tiny apartment that cleverly plays with expectations, finishing with a cheesy coda that's absolutely priceless - and its these moments that show us what might have been.

Bill Pullman plays a good vile piece of shit. He's a great antagonist in this underrated neo-noir. I thought this was an intense crime thriller with great performances all around. I loved the early 2000s feel. I liked the score. The ending was heading in a rough direction until the very end which felt just right. Great film!

The Guilty is a bit all over the place. There's a lawyer/judge who doesn't actually do much lawyering/judging and there's a criminal underworld group that shows up about halfway through the film but doesn't have much of a bearing on it. Yet, Anthony Waller proves once more that he's a ballsy director. I'm fully aware that this film is a remake of a British television series but Waller channels his inner Hitchcock by killing off one of the main characters with a huge portion of the film still left and executes a brilliant (but equally obvious) twist/sting at the film's climax.

Rosenblatt pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court before Judge David S. Doty to one count of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl. A sentencing hearing will be scheduled at a later time.

Mikey gets back into things with a Russian Leg Sweep and then heads up to the top rope, where he comes off with a big clothesline for two. Mikey slips out of a CW back body drop attempt and hits The Whippersnapper for the apparent three count, but Lou E drags the ref out of the ring to stop that.

Jazz wants Simon to start, but Simon begs off and gets Doring to start instead. Doring heels it up against Jazz, but misses a charge in the corner and gets rolled up for two. Roadkill and Kash go next, as Kash runs wild with arm drags and a dropkick. Doring tries to help out, so Nova runs in to stop that and the four men brawl outside. This allows Jazz to bring Simon in the hard way, and she bumps him around for a bit before hitting the Jazz Stinger (X-Factor)

Angel finally manages to get some stomps in on New Jack as he lies in the wreckage of the table and drags him back to the ring. It looks like Angel might finally get some actual heat on New Jack now, but Jack foils him once again and looks to staple him in the eye, like Angel did to him previously. However, DeVito comes in to take the stapling for his boss, which allows Angel to hit New Jack with a snow shovel to defeat him once again.

We start things off with a slug fest, which ends with Sabu kicking RVD out of the ring. Well that took all of 45 seconds before they started brawling I think. Outside the ring, Sabu launches himself off a chair and squishes RVD against the guardrail. Back inside, Sabu works over RVD and gets a big slingshot leg lariat for two, but misses a somersault leg drop, which allows RVD to reply with a cartwheel somersault splash.

Sabu hits a Triple Jump Leg Drop instead and makes another cover, which gets two from the revived referee. Sabu grabs a chair and heads up top with it, but RVD sprints over and kicks the chair right into his face for a double down. In a cute spot, RVD throws the chair at Sabu again, who catches it and ducks thinking that a Van Daminator attempt is coming. RVD pauses however and waits for him to stand up, before delivering the kick to complete the move.

Awesome wastes no time taking things to the extreme, by gorilla pressing Spike from the ring through one of his own tables. Spike bravely drags himself back into the ring, only for Awesome to fling him out again through two more tables. Hot Take: Spike Dudley was one hell of a bump machine! Awesome sends Spike into the crowd and then follows with a big running dive, as Joey is now requesting that the referee end the match. Cyrus is not having that though and demands that Joey shut up.

That was one amazing performance from Spike Dudley there, as he took an unbelievable amount of punishment in an effort to have the best match he possibly could. Awesome looked like an absolute monster by hitting all his big moves and dives, but Spike was the one who held this together with his constant selling and scary bumps. All it was lacking really was a proper near fall for Spike, as he got Awesome with plenty of big moves but was never able to cover him in the ring. Spike getting a super close two count from something like a victory roll was all this was missing really. Aside from that, it was absolutely the best possible match you could get from these two in such an environment.

Early 2000 is an interesting period for ECW, as there seemed like a genuine chance for the company to kick on thanks to the TNN and Acclaim deals, but behind the scenes things were not rosy with TNN at all, so much so that it would soon get turned into a storyline with Cyrus being the representative of The Network.

Despite this, things looked optimistic thanks to Awesome being booked as a strong World Champion, whilst RVD was enjoying his long TV Title reign. It looked like a match between the two of them could end up being a big deal, but a one-two punch of RVD getting injured and Awesome leaving for WCW did real damage to the company, and it never quite recovered.

Grenon, 49, was also found guilty of the aggravated sexual assault of Potvin in her basement apartment in April 2000 in Jonquire, Que., now a part of Saguenay, some 215 kilometres north of Quebec City.

The defence admitted that Grenon broke into Potvin's apartment and killed her, but argued that her death happened during a robbery attempt and suggested he be convicted on the lesser charge of second-degree murder.

Earlier in the trial, Superior Court Justice Franois Huot reminded the jury that a first-degree murder is a homicide that is planned and deliberate, adding that a murder is also considered first-degree if it took place in the same chain of events as a sexual assault.

Contrary to the defence's argument, Huot clarified that it was not necessary to prove the sexual assault took place before death, only that an assault or attempted assault occurred not long before the killing.

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