High Crimes is a
2002 American drama film directed by
Carl Franklin. The screenplay by Yuri Zeltser and Grace Cary Bickley is based on a novel by
Joseph Finder.
Plot
Attorney Claire Kubik and her woodworker husband Tom find their idyllic life in
Marin County shattered when, during a
Christmas shopping excursion in
San Francisco's
Union Square, he is captured by the
FBI and charged with the murder of nine peasants in a remote village in
El Salvador in 1988. Claire is shocked to discover Tom, whose real name is Ronald Chapman, was a covert military operative serving in the
United States Marine Corps and has been on the run for the past fourteen years.
