Wrongfully Accused (1998)

User Rating:

5.4/10   

Director:

Pat Proft

Writer (WGA):

Pat Proft (written by)

Release Date:

21 August 1998 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Thriller

Tagline:

It's not just a movie. It's every movie.

Plot:

Ryan Harrison is framed for murder and must prove himself innocent by finding a mysterious one-eyed, one-armed, one-legged man after escaping from a bus accident on the way to jail.

Plot Keywords:

One Legged Man | Bus | Murder | Death | Violin

Cast

Leslie Nielsen	...	Ryan Harrison
Richard Crenna	...	Lieutenant Fergus Falls
Kelly LeBrock	...	Lauren Goodhue (as Kelly Le Brock)
Melinda McGraw	...	Cass Lake
Michael York	...	Hibbing Goodhue
Sandra Bernhard	...	Doctor Fridley
Aaron Pearl	...	Sean Laughrea
Leslie Jones	...	Sergeant Tina Bagley
Benjamin Ratner	...	Sergeant Orono (as Ben Ratner)
Gerard Plunkett	...	Sir Robert McKintyre
Duncan Fraser	...	Sergeant McMacDonald
John Walsh	...	John Walsh
Maury Hannigan	...	Commissioner Hannigan
Chick Hearn	...	Basketball Announcer
Lambchop	...	Herself

Also Known As:

Leslie Nielsen ist sehr verdächtig (Germany)
Sehr verdächtig (Germany) (alternative title)
Unter falschem Verdacht (Germany) (alternative title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sex-related humor and language.

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

Germany | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:L | South Korea:15 | USA:PG-13 (No. 35970) | Australia:PG | Canada:PG | France:U | Germany:12 (w) | Netherlands:AL | Portugal:M/6 (video premiere) | Spain:T | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:PG | Singapore:PG | Argentina:Atp

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Morgan Creek Productions

Trivia:

In the hospital, a voice pages "Dr. Kimble". This was Harrison Ford's wrongfully accused character in The Fugitive (1993). The TV news reader is also named Kimble.

Goofs:

Errors in geography: When Ryan Harrison goes to the corn field in the car he hot wired, he gets out and you see a British Columbia license plate. He is supposed to be in Minnesota.

Quotes:

Ryan Harrison: [to Cass] When you shot me at point blank range, I knew you loved me.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Back to the Future (1985)

Soundtrack:

As Time Goes By

Funny!

Ryan Harrison (Leslie Nielsen) is a violinist framed for murdering a rich man (Michael York); he ends up escaping and taking it on the lam while searching for the one-armed, one-legged, one-eyed killer who was really responsible.

In typical fashion, this parody is mostly making fun of the 1993 Harrison Ford / Tommy Lee Jones chase thriller "The Fugitive", but takes potshots at many other movies and bits of pop culture along the way. The difference is I actually found much of this to be funny. It's of course silly and completely lacking in subtlety but that's the whole point. I'm glad to say that I actually laughed at it. While it does lose momentum and laughs (around the one-hour mark - the film-makers had exhausted all their best material) like other comedies before it, it's still above-average of its type. I thought it was better than "Jane Austen's Mafia", at any rate (they came out the same year).

This marked the film-making debut of Pat Proft, a veteran comedy screenwriter who co-wrote the films in the "Naked Gun" and "Hot Shots!" series.

I gave it seven out of ten.