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Trailers...

  • Unforgivable
  • Plainclothes
  • Wayward
  • Cutaways
  • My Sunnyside
  • Brigitte’s Planet B
  • How Far Does The Dark Go?
  • Brief History of the LGBT+ Press in Brazil (A)
  • Internal Comms
  • Ghost Empire § Mauritius-Chagos
  • Mothers, Lovers and Others
  • Labyrinth of Lost Boys
  • Gunyo Cholo: The Dress
  • Days of August
  • Chica Quinqui
  • After the Hunt
  • Desire Lines
  • History of Two Warriors
  • Oxygen Masks Will (Not) Drop Automatically
  • Einfach machen - She-Punks von 1977 bis heute
  • Couture
  • Out Standing
  • History of Sound (The)
  • Cinema Jazireh
  • Imagine
  • TURA!
  • Flower Girl
  • Maspalomas
  • Old Guys in Bed
  • Private Life (A)
  • Sane Inside Insanity - The Phenomenon of Rocky Horror
  • Forgetting the Many: The Royal Pardon of Alan Turing
  • Oh, Otto!
  • True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick (The)
  • I Know What You Did Last Summer
  • Silencio
  • Cum As You Are
  • I Wish You All the Best
  • Deaf
  • Toxic Avenger (The)

...and justice for all.

Country: USA, Language: English, 119 mins

  • Director: Norman Jewison
  • Writer: Valerie Curtin; Barry Levinson
  • Producer: Norman Jewison; Patrick J. Palmer

CGiii Comment

Humiliating a drag queen in jail, a criminal called Wanky and a judge firing a gun in court - that's the first 15 minutes.

Is it a comedy? Is it a drama? Neither.

It is a complete heavy-handed mess with hideous music.

The helicopter scene is possibly the most irrelevant in cinematic history.

Pacino made a dismal choice, the rest of the production and writing team should have hung up their film-making capabilities...they simply conned an entire audience.

As bad as it gets.

To think that this received Academy nominations is beyond contemplation.


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The(ir) Blurb...

When a judge is charged with rape, Arthur Kirkland is forced to defend him. Kirkland has had problems with the judge in the past, including one incident when the judge wrongly sentenced his client Jeff McCullaugh because of a technicality. Kirkland faces a moral and legal dilemma.

Cast & Characters

Al Pacino as Arthur Kirkland;
Jack Warden as Judge Francis Rayford;
John Forsythe as Judge Henry T. Fleming;
Lee Strasberg as Sam Kirkland;
Jeffrey Tambor as Jay Porter;
Christine Lahti as Gail Packer;
Sam Levene as Arnie;
Robert Christian as Ralph Agee;
Thomas G. Waites as Jeff McCullaugh;
Larry Bryggman as Warren Fresnell;
Dominic Chianese as Carl Travers;
Craig T. Nelson as Frank Bowers;
Victor Arnold as Leo Fasci;
Vincent Beck as Officer Leary;
Michael Gorrin as Elderly Man