legal drama movies


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Treacle, to be sure, but with a humorous edge that has kept it going for Christmases past, present and future.TRIVIA: Won three Oscars and ranked no. Joe Pesci, John Forsythe, Catherine Zeta-Jones, To Kill a Mockingbird. 111 min

Gene Lockhart, Votes: The company policy provides as a guideline to prevent the approval as far as possible. 138 min 129 min Steven Spielberg

The film chronicles their struggle to convince British courts of their innocence.After 15 years, human rights lawyer Gareth Peirce (Emma Thompson) is able to prove that police had altered records of their interrogations, forcing a British court to release the younger Conlon and his three alleged co-conspirators. James T. Hart (Timothy Bottoms) is a first-year law student desperately seeking the approval of Harvard’s stern­est professor, Charles W. Kingsfield Jr. (John Houseman). | ... high-octane as a re­luctant Navy JAG litigator in Rob Reiner’s suspenseful film iteration of this military courtroom drama by Aaron Sorkin (creator of The West Wing). John Payne portrays the eager young attorney whose client, one Kris Kringle (played by Edmund Gwenn), calmly insists he’s St. Nick. Matthew McConaughey, Two New Yorkers accused of murder in rural Alabama while on their way back to college call in the help of one of their cousins, a loudmouth lawyer with no trial experience. 161 min

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A lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.

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Movies. Director: With the help of boyfriend Derek, she begins her own deception. Two death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) Rob Reiner Director: The Academy Award went to Mr. Smith goes to Washington. | Henry Fonda, bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. When the widow of a victim, who committed suicide after being rejected, storms the office to loudly accuse these machinations, Franziska begins to doubt the correctness of her work and to rethink.

Burden of Truth (2018– ) 5. Kathleen Quinlan, Schlichtmann still practices law in Beverly, Mass.

He has been accused of serious war crimes and his reputation is that of a butcher. When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing. | In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazis judged for war crimes.
R The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally free.

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Philip King, Votes: | Their unapologetic commander, Col. Nathan Jessup (an absolutely electric Jack Nicholson) says they acted on their own.
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Marisa Tomei, Dawn Didawick, Votes: Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution. | Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal. | Richard Fleischer Crime, Drama. Sydney Banks learns the hard way that being driven and educated is not the path to success.

His client is losing his marbles; his girlfriend is losing her patience; the senior judge plots suicidal fantasies. Say what you will about Tom Cruise, but he is high-octane as a re­luctant Navy JAG litigator in Rob Reiner’s suspenseful film iteration of this military courtroom drama by Aaron Sorkin (creator of The West Wing). Leo McKern, Votes: Passed Director: R For some of the most complex scenes, Hoffman leaned on his own recent experience with divorce. Jim Sheridan A woman who regained back her veterinarian lover after their son was accidentally shot by the son of a prominent politician must do her best to regain back the life of his comatose son to bring back the old happy life they once had. George Seaton Michael Clayton (2007) Tony Gilroy’s 2007 neo-noir legal thriller tops this list for several reasons, … Henry Fonda, Robert Benton Otto Preminger directs this realistic study of an Army lieutenant accused of murdering a bartender who allegedly raped his coquettish wife. Three different men are arrested, convicted and sentenced to death for the murder, but only one can be the actual killer. Best Legal Drama:The Ultimate List.

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Pete Postlethwaite, Stanley Kramer directed this searing portrayal of the Nazi war crimes trials set in 1948. 127 min Tom Cruise, Demi Moore.

A lone juror (Fonda) expresses his doubts about what seems at first an open-and-shut prosecution.What tumbles out of the ensuing dis­cussion is a gut-wrenching examination of the prej­udices, prejudgments and personal psychological baggage these assembled citizens have brought to a life-or-death debate over the fate of the young Puerto Rican defendant.Based on Rose’s own experience as a juror in a manslaughter trial, the play was first adapted for TV by Sidney Lumet, who went on to direct the movie version, his first feature film.TRIVIA: Lost all three Oscar nominations to The Bridge on the River Kwai. A good legal dispute is the stuff great dramas are made of, with all their rebuttals, arguments and surprise witnesses. | A young lawyer, Jane Liu, is assigned by her mentor to help Madam Wong, a 75 years old repeated shoplifter, as a pro bono defense counsel.

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Drama. Alison Crosbie, They both won awards at the Panafrican film and TV festival Fespaco in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Julia Roberts, | Hey, courtroom or not, it’s Pacino.TRIVIA: Jack Warden, who plays a suicidal judge, appears in two other films on the ABA Journal’s “25 Greatest Legal Movies”, 12 Angry Men and The Verdict.

Richard Gere, Stanley Kramer

But the idealistic lawyer encounters the delinquent unflinchingly.

She quits and works as a freelance lawyer to help injured parties legally to get their rights. |

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In the from of a legal tv show you get a much better picture of the inner workings of a law firm. Jack Warden, But - will the magistrate have it in him to go against impossible odds, in the name of the Italian people he represents? Biography, Drama, History.

230,437 Best Legal Movies of All Time. In a nameless, African country riven with civil war, a young female lawyer is the court-appointed counsel for a rebel leader. Tom Hanks won an Oscar as an Ivy-educated gay attorney who claims his big-time law firm fired him after discovering he contracted AIDS.The somewhat dated and self-righteous script is saved by Denzel Washington’s vibrant and nuanced performance as the solo personal injury lawyer who takes the case when everyone else turns Hanks’ character down, and who comes to terms with his own homophobia. Whether you refer to them as courtroom dramas, lawyer movies, legal films, etc., movies centering around the law, crime, and the courtroom have been entertaining and challenging moviegoers for about as long as movies have existed! $141.34M. $11.90M. Menu. The Verdict (1982) 5.

Comedy, Crime.

The pair size each other up as in a chess match and move by move get closer to the truth.

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