Guilty By Suspicion

Released 1991
Stars Robert De Niro, Annette Bening, George Wendt, Patricia Wettig, Sam Wanamaker, Ben Piazza, Gailard Sartain, Stuart Margolin, Martin Scorsese
Directed by Irwin Winkler

Hollywood Blacklist drama, set in 1951, is earnest, superficial, and numbingly bland. De Niro is hotshot director who can't comprehend severity of Communist witch hunt; Bening is his sympathetic ex-wife, and Wettig (way over the top), an actress friend. Viewers unfamiliar with this dark chapter of history may find film as fascinating as intended. Wanamaker, who spent this era in exile in England, plays a villainous attorney. Veteran producer Winkler's (mediocre) writing and directing debut.

Summary by Leonard Maltin