The character of the judge: with the elderly judge and her abilities, his promoting her, her knowledge, study? The brittle relationship with her husband, her making herself up, going to the dinner, the nomination? The later clashes? His jealousy and aggression? Her resisting him, his walking out? A focus of suspicion? Her relationship with the dead man? Colleagues? His flirting? His death and its impact? Her encounter with Martin, in the judge's chambers, at the library, the poetry, the communication, her going back with the book, the encounter, her return, the sexual experience and its aftermath? Her lies? His disappearance? His giving her an alibi? The clash with Theresa Lewis in the courts, personally? Presiding over the case, her distractedness, the evidence piling up against her? Her inability to communicate the truth to others? The clash with the detective and going to the warehouse? The earrings, the underwear, the poetry book, the signature? Her handling of the situation? Her telling the detective - and searching for the gavel? The murder of the detective, the confrontation with Martin in the library and then at home? The struggle? Her vindication?Ħ. The prologue and the provocative scene in the train, the murder? The judge and her presiding over the case, the death penalty and the murderer's execution? The irony of the resolution - her looking at the photos of past cases, mystified, noticing the tattoo, the connection with Martin?ĥ. The title and the focus on the judge, her behaviour, its consequences?Ĥ. The Detroit locations, the city, the law courts, apartments? The atmosphere of Detroit? The musical score and its atmospheric themes?ģ. Interesting and entertaining telemovie? Murder mystery? Portrait of a judge and her affair, imprudence, becoming victim?Ģ. The film moves to a rather melodramatic climax in order to resolve everything.ġ. However, the focus is on Billy Worth as the young man - who has more to do with the murder than is first thought. There is a strong supporting cast, mainly in cameo roles, Kevin Mc Carthy as an elderly judge, Dabney Coleman as the victim, Will Patten as the judge's husband. It shows the imprudence of the judge, her trying to keep calm as she administers the case which ultimately will lead to her arrest. However, she could not have done it because she was with the young man at the time of the murder. Ultimately, all the evidenced points to the judge. When the colleague is murdered, there are suspicions on a variety of people. However, he suspects a prominent colleague.
She becomes involved with a young man, imprudently, and her husband becomes suspicious. Bonnie Bedelia plays a rising lawyer who is to be appointed a judge. Judicial Consent is a murder mystery with a twist.
Other well–known performances came as the wife of Bruce Willis's character John McClane in Die Hard (1988) and Die Hard 2 (1990), and Harrison Ford in Presumed Innocent (1990).īedelia appears in two Stephen King film adaptations: Salem's Lot and Needful Things (1993).
In April 1969 she guest starred in "The Unwanted", an episode of the TV series Bonanza.īedelia was nominated for a Golden Globe for her starring role in 1983's Heart Like a Wheel as drag racer Shirley Muldowney. She also worked on Broadway, making her debut supporting Patty Duke in 1962 in Isle of Children and winning a Theatre World award in the lead of My Sweet Charlie in 1966. Divorced from the father of her two children, she is presently married to third husband (some references state fourth) actor Michael MacRae, whom she married in 1995.įrom 1961 to 1967, Bonnie was a regular on the CBS soap opera, Love of Life, playing the role of Sandy Porter. The time off to focus on motherhood (she had second son, Jonah Luber, in 1976) proved detrimental to her rising star. She married scriptwriter Ken Luber on April 24, 1969, and they had a son, Yuri, the following year.
She is the sister of Kit Culkin and the aunt of actors Macaulay, Kieran, and Rory Culkin. Bedelia was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of Marian Ethel ( née Wagner), a writer and editor, and Philip Harley Culkin, a journalist.