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Physical Evidence: Production, Reception & Cast

Physical Evidence is a 1989 American crime thriller film directed by Michael Crichton (in his final film as a director), and starring Burt Reynolds, Theresa Russell, and Ned Beatty. The film focuses on an alcoholic suspended police officer (Reynolds) charged with murder, and his representation by a female attorney (Russell) attempting to defend him.

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Physical Evidence topic overview

The analysis highlights Production, Reception and Cast as prominent areas in the source structure around Physical Evidence.

Related topics
42
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
46
Extracted relationships
32
Related term clusters
16
Bridge connections
46

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Production · 15 topics
Reception · 12 topics
Cast · 8 topics
Overview · 7 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Box office
$3.5 million
Budget
$11-12 million
Cinematography
John A. Alonzo
Country
United States
Directed by
Michael Crichton
Distributed by
Columbia Pictures

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Physical Evidence
7Crime film · Thriller (genre) · Michael Crichton
4Columbia Pictures · General Film Distributors · Martin Ransohoff
6Principal photography · Seattle · Boston

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Overview

Cast

Production

Reception

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Advanced semantic analysis

How Physical Evidence connects Entity context

The extracted context around Physical Evidence shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Physical Evidence → Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, David Kehr, Janet Maslin, Likewise, Michael Crichton, Mr, Reynolds, Reynolds's Joe, Roger Ebert, Russell, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, TV Guide Another extracted example is Physical Evidence → Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Theresa Russell. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Physical Evidence

Top relations

related to Critical response · 14
Physical Evidence → Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, David Kehr, Janet Maslin, Likewise, Michael Crichton, Mr, Reynolds, Reynolds's Joe, Roger Ebert, Russell, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, TV Guide
Starring · 3
Physical Evidence → Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Theresa Russell
Box office · 1
Physical Evidence → $3.5 million
Budget · 1
Physical Evidence → $11-12 million
Cinematography · 1
Physical Evidence → John A. Alonzo
Country · 1
Physical Evidence → United States
Directed by · 1
Physical Evidence → Michael Crichton
Distributed by · 1
Physical Evidence → Columbia Pictures
Edited by · 1
Physical Evidence → Glenn Farr
Language · 1
Physical Evidence → English

Important terminology

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Important terminology

joe film norton reynolds russell jenny evidence physical michael crichton burt sklar murder columbia box office farley police story ransohoff

Physical Evidence relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 32 structured relationships around Physical Evidence. Examples in this analysis include Physical Evidence → Box office → $3.5 million and Physical Evidence → Budget → $11-12 million. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Physical EvidenceBox office$3.5 million1.00infobox
Physical EvidenceBudget$11-12 million1.00infobox
Physical EvidenceCinematographyJohn A. Alonzo1.00infobox
Physical EvidenceCountryUnited States1.00infobox
Physical EvidenceDirected byMichael Crichton1.00infobox
Physical EvidenceDistributed byColumbia Pictures1.00infobox
Physical EvidenceEdited byGlenn Farr1.00infobox
Physical EvidenceLanguageEnglish1.00infobox
Physical EvidenceMusic byHenry Mancini1.00infobox
Physical EvidenceProduced byMartin Ransohoff1.00infobox
Physical EvidenceRelease dateJanuary 27, 1989 (1989-01-27)1.00infobox
Physical EvidenceRunning time99 minutes1.00infobox
Physical EvidenceScreenplay byBill Phillips1.00infobox
Physical EvidenceStarringBurt Reynolds1.00infobox
Physical EvidenceStarringTheresa Russell1.00infobox
Physical EvidenceStarringNed Beatty1.00infobox
Physical EvidenceStory byBill Phillips Steve Ransohoff1.00infobox
Physical Evidenceis a1989 American crime thriller film directed by Michael Crichton0.90text

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Physical Evidence bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Physical, Box and Office. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Physical Evidence
    • Physical
    • Box
    • Office
    • Beatty
    • Directed
    • Ned
    • Starring
    • Theresa
    • Burt
    • Crichton
    • Michael
    • Reynolds
  • physical evidence
    • Physical
    • Box
    • Office
    • Beatty
    • Directed
    • Ned
    • Starring
    • Theresa
    • Burt
    • Crichton
    • Michael
    • Reynolds
  • crime film
    • Beatty
    • Directed
    • Ned
    • Quinn
    • Russell
    • Starring
    • Theresa
    • Thriller
    • Tells
    • Reynolds
    • Burt
    • Crichton
  • michael crichton
    • Crichton
    • Michael
    • Beatty
    • Directed
    • Ned
    • Theresa
    • Burt
    • Reynolds
    • Russell
    • Starring
    • Physical
    • Evidence
  • burt reynolds
    • Russell
    • Beatty
    • Ned
    • Starring
    • Theresa
    • Reynolds
    • Michael
    • Directed
    • Harry
    • Quinn
    • Thriller
    • Crichton
  • ned beatty
    • Beatty
    • Ned
    • Theresa
    • Burt
    • Michael
    • Directed
    • Reynolds
    • Starring
    • Russell
    • Crichton
    • Physical
    • Crime
  • michael p. moran
    • Crichton
    • Beatty
    • Ned
    • Theresa
    • Burt
    • Reynolds
    • Russell
    • Starring
    • Physical
    • Harry
    • Martin
    • New
  • jagged edge (film)
    • Russell
    • Thriller
    • Reynolds
    • Directed
    • Columbia
    • Burt
    • Crichton
    • Michael
    • Beatty
    • Martin
    • Ned
    • New

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Physical Evidence, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Physical Evidence with Production. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Physical Evidence — Production · splits 31 ⟂ 16
Physical Evidence — Reception · splits 34 ⟂ 13
Physical Evidence — Cast · splits 38 ⟂ 9
Physical Evidence — Overview · splits 39 ⟂ 8

Map overview Semantic statistics

Physical Evidence

Nodes47
Edges46
Triples32
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.042553
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Physical Evidence to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Production, Reception & Cast, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Physical Evidence · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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