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The true story thriller Above Suspicion is now available by subscription on Netflix. In it, 'Game of Thrones' star Emilia Clarke becomes the kingpin of one of the biggest murder scandals of the 1980s.
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After the "Game Of Thrones" finale, Emilia Clarke tried again and again to expand her acting repertoire. This is also the case in the thriller “Above Suspicion”, which can now be streamed via Netflix. The film, based on the book Above Suspicion: An Undercover FBI Agent, an Illicit Affair, and a Murder of Passion by Joe Sharkey, follows the murder of Susan Smith by FBI agent Mark Putnam.
The case is one of the biggest scandals of the 1980s in the United States because it is the first confirmed murder committed by an FBI agent. Even if Philipp Noyce's film ("The Patriot Hour", "Salt") quickly fell into oblivion, the incident turns out to be gripping and interesting enough to merit a look on "Above Suspicion".
That's what "Above Suspicion" is about
Mark Putnam (Jack Huston of "Boardwalk Empire") is a newly married FBI agent who is assigned to Appalachia in Kentucky. In the isolated small town, single mother Susan Smith (Emilia Clarke), a drug addict, dreams of finally escaping, but her brutal husband (Johnny Knoxville) keeps bringing her back to earth.
When Susan meets the handsome FBI agent, he recruits her as an informant and soon even offers her a way out of the sadness in her life. The two quickly become much closer than expected and become entangled in an illicit affair that no one is allowed to find out. But the starting signal for a catastrophe has already been given and at the end of the affair Mark Putnam becomes a murderer...
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