Although he was acquitted, not everyone thinks he was innocent, including and especially prosecuting attorney Tommy Molto (Richard Schiff). “Innocent” is an adaptation of the sequel to Turow’s genre-rattling “Presumed Innocent,” in which Sabich (played in the feature film by Harrison Ford) was accused of murdering his other young mistress. But Barbara is far from an innocently duped wife, and this is not Rusty’s first time in the murder rodeo. A deliciously hard-to-read Bill Pullman plays Rusty Sabich, a state judge who may have killed his wife, Barbara (Marcia Gay Harden), to be with his young intern/mistress. None of which, you will be happy to know, is a problem in “Scott Turow’s Innocent,” which kicks off the series. Adapted from bestselling authors including Scott Turow, Mary Higgins Clark and April Smith and chock full of stars, the six films airing in the next two months are a surprisingly mixed bag, proving that as ubiquitous and long-lived as it may be, the murder mystery movie is a deceptively delicate creature, easily thrown off by imperfect pacing, predictable dialogue or facile adaptation. TNT’s new Mystery Movie Night is a high-wattage resurrection of a classic television genre - the two-hour TV murder mystery.
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