Fracture (2007 film)

Fracture is a 2007 AmericanGerman crimemystery thriller film, with Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling directed by Gregory Hoblit. It is the story of a cuckold who contrives a battle of wits with a young assistant district attorney by shooting his wife in the head with her lovers homicidedetective gun. After the shooter achieves a dismissal of the case on his staged lack of evidence, the assistant D.A. continues his obsessive mission to prove the guilt of the killer who had baited him into that very condition.

Theodore Ted Crawford Anthony Hopkins, a wealthy and talented Irish aeronautical engineer in Los Angeles, discovers that his wife Jennifer Embeth Davidtz is having an affair with police detective Robert Nunally Billy Burke. After confronting his wife, Crawford shoots her, seriously wounding her, and immediately confesses the crime to Nunally at the scene.He then engages in a battle of wits with rising star deputy district attorney William Willy Beachum Ryan Gosling, who considers this an openandshut matter and agrees to go to trial immediately. Beachum is busy, making preparations for his transition from criminal law to corporate attorney for Wooton amp Simms, a wellknown law firm, and begins a romantic relationship with his future boss, Nikki Gardner Rosamund Pike. ........

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