Primal Fear (movie)

Primal Fear (movie) is a movie from 1996 starring Richard Gere as a lawyer who tries to get a murderer off the hook using the insanity defense on the grounds that the killer has a split personality and wins only to find out that the killer never actually had dissociative identity disorder and was actually evil all along. It was the first movie Edward Norton was ever in and he was nominated for an Academy Award for it.