Beyond a Reasonable Doubt film Remake 2009

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt is a 1956 film noir directed by Fritz Lang and written by Douglas Morrow. The film, considered film noir, was the last American film directed by Lang.
A new version of Beyond a Reasonable Doubt directed by Peter Hyams and starring Michael Douglas, Amber Tamblyn, and Jesse Metcalfe was released in theaters on September 11, 2009. It has been negatively received by critics, and currently has 00% on Rotten tomatoes, based on 20 reviews.
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The brilliant lawyer put behind bars record quantity of criminals, is the indisputable candidate on victory in elections of the governor on coming nearer elections. But when the young ambitious journalist starts to investigate affairs, he finds out falsifications of testimony. Beginning dangerous game in cat - mouses, the journalist becomes suspected of murder to expose the corrupted politician.
A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom Garrett (Dana Andrews) into a hoax in an attempt to expose the alleged ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.

Tom agrees to the plan, not knowing that unforeseen events will put such a snag in the scheme that he ends up in danger of being executed. A friend holding back evidence that will clear Tom at his trial dies in an accident before he can testify.
Dennis L. White describes Beyond a Reasonable Doubt as having "considerable impact, due not so much to visual style, as to the narrative structure and mood and to the expertly devised plot, in which the turnabout is both surprising and convincing." info (c) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_a_Reasonable_Doubt