But a perfect man cannot live this imperfect existence. Above Suspicion follows Dempsey through surgery, rehab, and his eventual hero's discharge from the department.
In the confusion, Dempsey takes a bullet to the spine which paralyzes him from the waist down and viewers enter a part of this film that can be almost unbearable to watch. A typical Nick screwup (he forgot to turn his beeper off) alerts the suspects and they scatter. Thanks to the prints Dempsey lifted, the shooters are quickly identified and the police move in on the apartment where they are holed up. But when he dials his mobile phone to bring his policeman brother in on the case, we soon learn that Dempsey's wife, apparently fed up with all that perfection is having a sexual encounter with his decidedly imperfect younger brother, Nick. Furthermore, he lives with his beautiful wife and adorable son in a perfect house and neighborhood. When he asks that a portable laser be brought down to look for fingerprints, Rhinehart scoffs: "You can't get prints off concrete." (Dempsey gets the laser and the prints). An ex-Navy test pilot, he's up on all the latest technical stuff. Dempsey's colleague, Detective Rhinehart, sarcastically comments "Oh look, the cavalry has arrived." This should be Rhinehart's case, but it is given to Dempsey - clearly the Golden Boy of the department. Homicide detective Dempsey Cain (Reeve) pulls up and immediately begins barking orders. Two rookie cops have been killed and the police are moving in to secure the crime scene. The film begins with gunshots and the sound of wailing sirens.
I can't live my life as half a man.", it is a taut, beautifully acted drama. Obviously Above Suspicion is a film burdened with heavy emotional baggage, but how does it rate as entertainment? For those who can bear to watch Christopher Reeve say lines like: "I want to die.
By unbelievably tragic coincidence, Reeve played in that film - his last role before he was injured - a police officer who was paralyzed after being shot in the line of duty. A few hours later HBO aired, as previously scheduled, a film starring Reeve that had debuted only a week earlier: Above Suspicion. John Jane of the University of Virginia Medical Center confirmed for the first time in a news conference that Reeve was indeed paralyzed from the neck down and unable to breathe without the aid of a ventilator.
On the evening news, Wednesday, May 31, 1995, five days after Christopher Reeve was injured in an equestrian accident, Dr. Movie Reviews (Christopher Reeve Homepage)Ībove Suspicion (1995) Character Name: Dempsey Cain
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