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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 117 min.
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Plot: A lawyer fed up with his country's legal red tape must defend a corrupt judge charged with rape.
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Cast: Al Pacino, Jack Warden, John Forsythe, Craig T. Nelson. Directed by Norman Jewison.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Ethics ∙ Advocacy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: A young lawyer feels impelled to defend his grandfather, a Mississippi death row inmate, convicted years ago of a racially-motivated bombing.
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Cast: Chris O'Donnell, Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway, Robert Prosky, Raymond J. Barry, Bo Jackson. Directed by James Foley.
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Categories: Advocacy ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Racism |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: A Chicago chorus girl in the 1920s shoots her deceptive lover and ends up on Murderess Row, where she meets a fellow musical convict.
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Cast: Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, John C. Reilly. Directed by Rob Marshall.
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Categories: Musical ∙ Advocacy ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: True story of a personal injury lawyer who risks everything to represent the families of children that died of leukemia as a result of the toxic waste dumped by a nearby corporation.
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Cast: John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Tony Shalhoub, William H. Macy, Zeljko Ivanek, Bruce Norris, John Lithgow, Kathleen Quinlan. Directed by Steven Zaillian.
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Categories: Environmental ∙ Civil Procedure ∙ Advocacy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 81 min.
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Plot: A videotaped production of Henry Fonda's stage performance as Clarence Darrow, one of the 20th century's foremost trial lawyers, in the one-man play.
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Cast: Henry Fonda. Directed by John Houseman.
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Categories: Television ∙ Criminal Procedure ∙ Advocacy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: An attorney suing an automobile manufacturer over a safety problem discovers his estranged daughter is representing the defense.
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Cast: Gene Hackman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. Directed by Michael Apted.
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Categories: Advocacy ∙ Conflict ∙ Ethics |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 105 min. B&W
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Plot: Clarence Darrow defends two wealthy Chicago teenagers in this drama based on the true story about the 1924 Leopold-Loeb murder case.
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Cast: Orson Welles, Bradford Dillman, Dean Stockwell, Diane Varsi, Martin Milner, E.G. Marshall. Directed by Richard Fleischer.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Juvenile ∙ Advocacy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: A mother witnesses a dingo carrying of her infant in the Australian outback, only to have herself accused of the infant's murder by the police and the media.
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Cast: Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Dale Reeves, Lauren Shepherd. Directed by Fred Schepisi.
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Categories: Advocacy ∙ Drama ∙ Witness |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 85 min.
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Plot: Rod Smolla, a First Amendment scholar, is recruited to sue a company that published a how-to manual for hitmen.
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Cast: Timothy Hutton, Ron Rifkin, Clark Johnson, Penny Johnson, Cliff DeYoung, Kenneth Walsh, James McDaniel. Directed by Andy Wolk.
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Categories: Constitutional ∙ Action ∙ Advocacy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 85 min.
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Plot: A 19th-century New England farmer sells his soul to the devil in exchange for seven years of prosperity. When the devil tries to collect, the farmer insists on a trial, with Daniel Webster defending him.
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Cast: Edward Arnold, Walter Hutson, James Craig, Anne Shirley, Jane Darwell, Simone Simon, Gene Lockhart. Directed by William Dieterle.
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Categories: Advocacy ∙ Ethics ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 144 min.
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Plot: A defense attorney who has never lost a case is invited to work for a N.Y. law firm ruled by a founder the attorney suspects is more than he seems.
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Cast: Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron. Directed by Taylor Hackford.
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Categories: Advocacy ∙ Ethics ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: A female lawyer takes an accused wife-murderer as a client, but finds herself morally compelled to betray him one way or another.
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Cast: Rebecca De Mornay, Don Johnson, Jack Warden. Directed by Sidney Lumet.
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Categories: Advocacy ∙ Drama ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: NR Stars: **1/2
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Format: DVD 69 min. B&W
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Plot: A hotshot criminal lawyer blackmails a client into participating in a plan to murder the lawyer's cheating wife and her lover.
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Cast: Milburn Stone, Katherine deMille, Paul Guilfoyle. Directed by Elmer Clifton.
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Categories: Justice ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Advocacy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 100 min. B&W
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Plot: A lawyer who clawed his way out of the slums finds himself defending an underprivileged teen accused of murder, making the case that the boy is more a victim of society than a cold-hearted killer.
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Cast: John Derek, Humphrey Bogart, Susan Perry, Arlene Roberts, George Macready. Directed by Nicholas Ray.
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Categories: Advocacy ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Juvenile |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: A young lawyer is assigned to the clemency case of a woman convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death.
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Cast: Sharon Stone, Rob Morrow, Randy Quaid, Peter Gallagher, Jack Thompson. Directed by Bruce Beresford.
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Categories: Women ∙ Death Penalty ∙ Advocacy |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: A Sydney lawyer has more to worry about than higher-than-average rainfall when he is called upon to defend five Aboriginals in court.
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Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnet, David Gulipi. Directed by Peter Weir.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Advocacy |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 92 min.
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Plot: An actress is accused of murdering her brother-in-law, with whom she has been having an affair.
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Cast: James Garner, Gina Gershon, Kathleen Turner. Directed by Glenn Jordan.
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Categories: Advocacy ∙ Conflict ∙ Romance |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: In the 1940's South, an African-American is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store owner.
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Cast: Don Cheadle, Cicely Tyson, Mekhi Phifer, Irma P. Hall. Directed by Joseph Sargent.
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Categories: Racism ∙ Advocacy ∙ Death Penalty |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 96 min. B&W
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Plot: When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him.
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Cast: Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn, Gene Lockhart, Natalie Wood. Directed by George Seaton.
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Categories: Advocacy ∙ Fraud ∙ Testimony |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 123 min.
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Plot: Young lawyer in the public defender's office is given his first assignment: defending an Alcatraz prisoner who murdered a fellow inmate.
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Cast: Christian Slater, Kevin Bacon, Gary Oldman, Embeth Davidtz, Brad Dourif, William H. Macy, R. Lee Ermey. Directed by Mark Rocco.
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Categories: Sentencing ∙ Advocacy ∙ Criminal Law |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 124 min.
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Plot: A woman agrees to defend her father against accusations of heinous war crimes committed during WWII.
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Cast: Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Frederic Forrest. Directed by Costa-Gavras.
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Categories: Advocacy ∙ Family ∙ War |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (3 disc set) 220 min.
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Plot: Egyptian Prince learns his true heritage and mission as deliverer of his people.
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Cast: Charlton Heston, Yul Brenner, Anne Baxter, Edwrds G. Robinson, Judith Anderson, Vincent Price. Directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Religion ∙ Advocacy |
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