April 2022 Bonus Review: Reversal Of Fortune
"Can the devil get justice?"
the true crime that's worth your time
The crime
On December 21, 1980, American heiress and socialite Sunny von Bülow was found unresponsive on the bathroom floor — her second coma in a year’s time. She never woke up from this one. Her second husband, Claus von Bülow, was tried and convicted of attempted murder in 1982.
The story
Reversal Of Fortune, based on the book of the same name by Alan Dershowitz, is about Dershowitz and his crack team of Harvard Law students’ attempt to reverse the 1982 decision, and it’s probably best known today for notching Jeremy Irons a Best Actor Oscar, which is a shame. It’s very good, and it probably won the “wrong” Academy Award, but I’ll get to that in a moment. First, I’ll say that I recommend it highly, and though we seem to have left the time behind when you could find this airing on some basic-cable station or another in the 10 PM hour, you can rent it from iTunes or Amazon.