Beyond Suspicion

Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Jeff Goldblum	John Nolan
Anne Heche	Lucy
Timothy Olyphant	Roy Mason
Nancy Travis	Carol
Joe Santos	Emanuel
Richard T. Jones	Decker
Kim Coates	Auggie Rose
Paige Moss	Noreen
Casey Biggs	Carl
Richard Gilbert-Hill	Woods
Tanya Beilke
Michael Chieffo
J.E. Freeman
Tony Genaro
Hawthorne James

Director	Matthew Tabak
Producer	William Paul Clark; Mark McGarry; Elie Samaha; Andrew Stevens
Writer	Matthew Tabak

Beyond Suspicion is a little too thoughtful to be accurately called a thriller, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. Jeff Goldblum plays insurance salesman John Nolan, who is passively content in his yuppie lifestyle until one night when he's caught in the middle of a robbery. Augie, a store clerk, is killed, and Nolan becomes so obsessed in finding a little meaning in Augie's death that he begins to gradually take over what would have been his life. But of course, all lives are complicated, and Augie's life as an ex-con was doubly so. Goldblum gives one of his trademark quirky performances, and it works well here, as he captures Nolan's discomfort in his own skin. Though not the edge-of-your-seat suspense movie its title might suggest it is, Beyond Suspicion is an interesting, patient, and thoughtful film that takes care to flesh out even minor characters. --Ali Davis