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3. Tom Is Actually Guilty - High Crimes
Of Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman's surprisingly large number of collaborations over the years, perhaps the silliest is High Crimes.
Judd stars as Claire Kubik, whose husband Tom (Jim Caviezel) is arrested by the FBI for apparently taking part in a military op in El Salvador which resulted in the deaths of nine unarmed civilians.
Tom claims he was there but didn't take part in the killings, and from early on audiences are basically primed to expect an aggressively conventional conspiracy thriller in which Tom is being framed by another party.
It all seems incredibly cut and dried, that is, until the genuinely surprising penny drops, when Tom tells his wife that he did indeed commit the murders, and even had witnesses killed in an attempt to cover it up.
Sure, it leads to another typical finale where Tom attempts to kill Claire, resulting in her killing him, but for a few minutes things actually got exciting and interesting enough to stop viewers from tuning out entirely.