Emilia Clark is riveting in this true story tale. She really has a way with making you care about her character. Johnny Knox is very credible as her abusive ex and Jack Huston performance as the perfect promised life rounded out this very gritty story! The performances were great, and yes truth is weirder sometimes than fiction.

ABOVE SUSPICION is the usual cheap, greyed out, digitally shot FBI movie based on a true historical story which didn't really need to be told. It has a tame, TV movie of the week feel to it and is really only of interest to see GAME OF THRONES starlet Emilia Clarke playing against type with a southern accent. She's pretty effective and very different from Daenerys, which is the obvious intention, but the film surrounding that character is frankly dull. Jack Huston struggles with an underwritten lead role, director Phillip Noyce shows none of the talent for suspense he brought to the likes of DEAD CALM, and the whole thing just feels more than a little aimless.

It's 1988 Pikeville, Kentucky. The town is dying as its mines close down. Susan Smith (Emilia Clarke) survive by welfare fraud and selling drugs with her husband Cash (Johnny Knoxville). When the cops catch them, she turns into a confidential informant for FBI agent Mark Putnam (Jack Huston). She starts having an affair with him despite his wife Kathy (Sophie Lowe) and kids.

This is supposedly a true story. Emilia Clarke is doing her best southern white trash work. This is really a character study of her dealing with a disintegrating obsessive sexual relationship. I would like a different person playing Mark Putnam. The movie plays into the buttoned up FBI agent ideals of the man. I want someone with more edge. I want Knoxville if he could start with a clean-cut look. That pairing would be more interesting. Jack Huston is doing straight-laced too well. He should do more disintegration. The obsessive relationship loses some of its power. This movie is shooting for a crime drama but it misses an opportunity for something more.