High Crimes

High Crimes
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Carl Franklin
Screenplay by	Yuri Zeltser Grace Cary Bickley
Based on	High Crimes by Joseph Finder
Produced by	Jesse Beaton Arnon Milchan Janet Yang
Starring	Ashley Judd Morgan Freeman Jim Caviezel Amanda Peet Tom Bower
Cinematography	Theo van de Sande
Edited by	Carole Kravetz-Aykanian
Music by	Graeme Revell
Production companies	Regency Enterprises Universal Pictures Monarch Pictures
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	April 5, 2002 (2002-04-05)
Running time	115 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$42 million[1]
Box office	$63.8 million[1]

High Crimes is a 2002 American legal thriller film starring Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman. The film follows defense attorney Claire Kubik (Judd) as she teams up with a seasoned military attorney (Freeman) to uncover a cover-up while defending her husband, Tom, who is charged with the murder of nine civilians in El Salvador and revealed to have been living under a false identity. The film is directed by Carl Franklin based on a screenplay by Yuri Zeltser and Grace Cary Bickley that adapted Joseph Finder's 1998 novel High Crimes.