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Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

PG-13 104 minutes EN Comedy , Drama , Crime
It's about love and reality. Faith and delusion. Good and evil. Success and failure.
A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss.
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