Absolute Power (1997) on Netflix
Master thief Luther Whitney is robbing a Washington mansion when Christy Sullivan arrives with Alan Richmond, the president. Hidden behind a one-way mirror, he watches agents shoot her.
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Luther Whitney, a thief who takes only the occasional job, breaks into the Washington mansion of billionaire Walter Sullivan for what he means to be his last job. He is still inside when Sullivan's wife, Christy, arrives for a rendezvous with Alan Richmond, the president. Whitney hides behind the one-way mirror of a bedroom vault and watches Richmond turn violent; when Christy wounds his arm with a letter opener, agents Bill Burton and Tim Collin rush in and fire. Chief of Staff Gloria Russell has the room restaged to resemble a burglary gone wrong. Whitney gets away with valuables and the letter opener. Detective Seth Frank leads the murder inquiry, and though he identifies Whitney as a suspect, he does not take the burglar for a killer.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Absolute Power (1997)
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When Clint Eastwood first heard of the book being turned into a film he liked the basic plot and the characters, but disliked that most of those he considered interesting were killed off, so he requested that Goldman make sure everyone the audience likes doesn't get killed off.- Absolute Power opened in second place behind the Star Wars Special Edition re-release, went on to earn $92.8 million worldwide against its $50 million budget, and held the number one box-office spot in Italy for nine straight weeks.
- The worldwide book and film rights to the novel were sold for a reported $5 million, and William Goldman was hired to write the screenplay in late 1994, working on several drafts through 1995, which he later described in his memoir Which Lie Did I Tell?
- The scenes in the museum were filmed in the Walters Art Museum, where Whitney is copying a painting by El Greco, Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata.
- Absolute Power was filmed between June and August 1996, and among the Washington, D.C. locations used for filming was the apartment of journalist Christopher Hitchens.
