Fracture
Thriller
New Line Cinema  (4/20/2007) 113 mins R

7.1 (32,948 votes)
It should all of have been so easy. Hotshot prosecution lawyer Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling) takes on one final case for the DA's office before starting a prestigious new career in corporate law. He has a confession, a murder weapon, a motive, a victim and the suspect Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins) was arrested at the scene. As the case unfolds it turns out it is not the open and shut case it first seemed. The victim isn't dead, the weapon wasn't fired and Crawford is now denying it. As the case, his career and life crumble all around him, Willy must fight to save himself and the victim before Ted Crawford gets away with murder....

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Cast and Crew
Anthony Hopkins  ......  Ted Crawford
Ryan Gosling  ......  Willy Beachum
David Strathairn  ......  Joe Lobruto
Rosamund Pike  ......  Nikki Gardner
Embeth Davidtz  ......  Jennifer Crawford
Billy Burke  ......  Lt. Robert Nunally
Director  .....  Gregory Hoblit
Producer  .....  Hawk Koch; Toby Emmerich; Samuel J. Brown; Michael Disco; Charles Weinstock
Writer  .....  Daniel Pyne; Glenn Gers
Notes
Goofs:
Factual errors: By the expert's testimony in court we are informed that Ted Crawford's bullet pierced through the frontal cortex in the temporal lobe coming to rest upon the upper side of the brain against the skull. Yet when we see wife Jennifer's head hit the floor for a brief moment in a close-up, there is no injury visible at all. Furthermore in another scene Ted points to his left cheek bone when he describes where he shot his wife. Such an injury is very different from that described during the trial. The shot was fired at close range with a powerful .45, which makes it very unlikely that the bullet would come to rest within the skull. (more)

Trivia:
The kinetic objects, with the rolling glass marbles, are designs of the Dutch artist Mark Bischof. (more)

Filming Locations:
Dijon Street, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA (more)

Quotes:
[first lines]
Crawford's Secretary: The NTSB guys are here about that bulkhead problem.
Ted Crawford: OK, thanks.
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Awards:
2 nominations (more)