Fracture is a 2007 legal/crime suspense film directed by Gregory Hoblit and starring Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 425 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (535 × 755 pixel, file size: 102 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Fracture poster featuring Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling. ... Gregory Hoblit (b. ... Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is an Academy Award-nominated Canadian actor. ... For the composer, see Antony Hopkins. ... David Russell Strathairn (born on January 26, 1949) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and television actor. ... Pike is the only child of Caroline and Julian Pike, both musical performers. ... Embeth Jean Davidtz (born August 11, 1965) is an American-born South African actress. ... Jeff Danna (born 1964) is a Canadian film composer and guitarist. ... Mychael Danna is a film composer. ... New Line Cinema, founded in 1967, is one of the major American film studios. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... is the 110th day of the year (111th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 has been referred to, by film and media critics, as the year of the threequels, a nickname referring to both the 2004 summer movie season and several film franchises which premiered or had installments released in 2004, which appear again this year: Spider-Man 3, Shrek the Third, Ocean... 2007 has been referred to, by film and media critics, as the year of the threequels, a nickname referring to both the 2004 summer movie season and several film franchises which premiered or had installments released in 2004, which appear again this year: Spider-Man 3, Shrek the Third, Ocean... A legal drama is a work of dramatic fiction about law, crime, punishment or the legal profession. ... Thriller films are movies that primarily use action and suspense to engage the audience. ... Gregory Hoblit (b. ... For the composer, see Antony Hopkins. ... Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is an Academy Award-nominated Canadian actor. ...

Premise

Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins), a meticulous-minded aeronautical engineer, discovers his wife Jennifer (Embeth Davidtz) is having an affair with police detective Rob Nunally (Billy Burke). Crawford then proceeds to shoot his wife, and immediately confesses to the crime. However, at his arraignment Crawford retracts his confession. He then engages in a battle of wits with rising star district attorney Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling), who considers this an open-and-shut matter. Beachum, however, quickly discovers that his case is falling apart as Crawford outwits him at every turn. For the composer, see Antony Hopkins. ... Aerospace engineering is the branch of engineering that concerns aircraft, spacecraft and related topics. ... Embeth Jean Davidtz (born August 11, 1965) is an American-born South African actress. ... Billy Burke was born on November 25, 1966 in Bellingham, Washington. ... Arraignment is a common law term for the formal reading of a criminal complaint, in the presence of the defendant, to inform him of the charges against him. ... A district attorney is, in some U.S. jurisdictions, the title of the local public official who represents the government in the prosecution of criminals. ... Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is an Academy Award-nominated Canadian actor. ...

Synopsis

In the opening stages of the trial, Crawford reveals that the officer who arrested him is the same officer with whom his wife was having an affair (Nunally). Crawford taunts the detective into attacking him in the courtroom. As a result, his confession is ruled to be inadmissable as evidence. Beachum then discovers that Crawford's handgun, a Glock 21, was not used to shoot his wife, because it had never been fired before. The police are baffled, and with no other evidence to present to the jury, Beachum is forced to concede the trial and Crawford is acquitted. The Glock 21 is a pistol manufactured by Glock. ...

Beachum becomes obsessed with the case. Earlier he was taken off the case but at his request he was allowed to continue, but at risk of damaging his career. Now that the case is closed he continues to search for evidence, and repeatedly visits Jennifer who is in coma in the hospital, hoping to get evidence from her. At Crawford's request a restraining order is issued forbidding Beachum to visit Jennifer. Finally Crawford orders the hospital staff to take her off life support and allows her to die. An injunction is an equitable remedy in the form of a court order that either prohibits or compels (enjoins or restrains) a party from continuing a particular activity. ...

Beachum eventually figures out that before the crime, in a hotel where Jennifer and Nunally were together, Crawford switched his handgun with Nunally's identical Glock 21. After Crawford shot Jennifer with Nunally's gun, when Nunally arrived (carrying Crawford's Glock) and Jennifer was assumed to be held hostage, Crawford and Nunally agreed to lay down their guns to negotiate. Nunally, horrified to learn that Jennifer has been shot, did not notice Crawford as he switched the guns back again, so that Crawford had his original never-fired Glock, and Nunally had his original Glock that had killed Jennifer. After arresting Crawford, Nunally holstered his gun, which left Crawford's unfired gun to be taken as evidence.

Beachum confronts Crawford with his conclusions, and Crawford confesses. He taunts Beachum, believing that he is immune to prosecution under the double jeopardy clause. However, Beachum reveals that by allowing his wife to die, Crawford's crime has been elevated to murder (rather than attempted murder) and is therefore no longer subject to the rules of double jeopardy. Crawford is arrested again, and Beachum attempts to prosecute him a second time. It is never revealed if he is found guilty or not, but heavily implied he is, given that the murder weapon has been found, and the bullet retrieved from his wife's head, along with the new confession. For other uses, see Double jeopardy (disambiguation). ...

Title

The film's title refers to Crawford's belief that all things in life are vulnerable and possess the potential to fall apart. At one point in the film, Crawford indicates to Beachum that if one looks close enough, everything has a weak spot that renders it capable of breaking. Beachum's weak spot, Crawford determines, is the attorney's strong motivation to win all of his criminal cases. In fact, the film's tag line is: "If you look close enough, you'll find everyone has a weak spot."

Cast

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Production

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Plot Holes

• When Crawford kills his wife, he immediately picks up the bullet and wipes off the prints. Yet at the end Beachum says they found the bullet inside his wife's skull, with the prints on it.

Trivia

• The poem that Willy Beachum reads to Jennifer Crawford is Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss.
• In the background of Beachum's office, case files with the name "Bonaventura" can be seen. This is the last name of the property master.
• In the beginning Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins) is seen driving a Porsche Carrera GT
• The house scenes were shot at The Sherman estate in California.

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External links

• Official Fracture site
• Fracture at the Internet Movie Database
• Fracture at RottenTomatoes.com