courtroom movies

Good Will Hunting (1997)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Williams, Robin | Damon, Matt | Affleck, Ben | Skarsgård, Stellan | Driver, Minnie | Affleck, Casey | Hauser, Cole | Mighton, John | Majorowski, Rachel | McCauley, Colleen | Mercier, Matt | St. George, Ralph | Lynds, Rob | Washington, Dan | Folland, Alison
Directors: Van Sant, Gus
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Will Hunting is a boy genius who was severely abused as a child and has been in trouble with the law ever since. When Will finally agrees to get counseling to keep himself out of jail and with his girlfriend, he meets Sean, the therapist who will change his life. Good Will Hunting tells the poignant story of Will and Sean’s coming to terms with the blows life has dealt them and with the questions that lie in the future.

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Schneider, Rob | Forsythe, William | Griffin, Eddie | Bareikis, Arija | Fehr, Oded | O'Grady, Gail | Riehle, Richard | Obradors, Jacqueline | Boy, Big | Poehler, Amy | Platias, Dina | Voges, Torsten | Lemen, Deborah | Turner, Bree | Shaifer, Andrew
Directors: Mitchell, Mike
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Deuce Bigalow is a fish tank cleaner until he gets a temporary job watching over a gigolo’s house. But when Deuce accidentally wrecks the house, he is forced to compensate by becoming a gigolo himself! He takes on interesting clients (a tall Norwegian woman, a rotund eater in drag, a roommate who curses every five seconds, a nurse)…and together with a detective chasing Deuce down…

Gift, The (2000)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Blanchett, Cate | Ribisi, Giovanni | Reeves, Keanu | Holmes, Katie | Kinnear, Greg | Swank, Hilary | Jeter, Michael | Dickens, Kim | Cole, Gary | Harris, Rosemary | Simmons, J.K. | Ross, Chelcie | Beasley, John | Provence, Lynnsee | McGilvray, Hunter
Directors: Raimi, Sam
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When a local woman (Katie Holmes) disappears and the police can’t seem to find any leads, her father (Chelcie Ross) turns to a poor young woman (Cate Blanchett) with psychic powers. Slowly she starts having visions of the woman chained and in a pond. Her visions lead to the body and the arrest of an abusive husband (Keanu Reeves), but did he really do it? Greg Kinnear is the missing woman’s fiancee, Hilary Swank plays Reeve’s abused wife, and Gary Cole is a sleazy attorney with ties to the missing woman.

Freeway (1996)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sutherland, Kiefer | Witherspoon, Reese | Bodison, Wolfgang | Hedaya, Dan | Plummer, Amanda | Shields, Brooke | Weiss, Michael T. | Woodbine, Bokeem | Díaz, Guillermo | Murphy, Brittany | Ubach, Alanna | Barnes, Susan | Ferrell, Conchata | Subkoff, Tara | Araskog, Julie
Directors: Bright, Matthew
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Little Red Riding Hood for the 1990’s: After her mom and step-dad are arrested, 15-year-old Vanessa Lutz decides that instead of once again being put into a foster home, she’d rather go and search for the grandmother she’s never met, and live with her. “On the way to grandma’s house,” (actually a trailer park) Vanessa’s car breaks down, and she’s picked up from the side of the road by Bob Wolverton, a counselor at a school for troubled boys. Bob slowly earns Vanessa’s trust, and eventually convinces her to talk about her sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather. When Vanessa realizes that Bob is enjoying what she’s saying, she realizes that he’s “The I-5 Killer,” from the news. She tries to get out of his truck, but the inside door handle has been removed…

Postman Always Rings Twice, The (1981)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA | West Germany
Actors: Nicholson, Jack | Lange, Jessica | Colicos, John | Lerner, Michael | Ryan, John P. | Huston, Anjelica | Traylor, William | Hill, Thomas | Van Ness, Jon | Farrell, Brian | Bond, Raleigh | Newman, William | Henderson, Albert | Magee, Ken | Peterson, Eugene
Directors: Rafelson, Bob
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This remake of the 1946 movie of the same name accounts an affair between a seedy drifter and a seductive wife of a roadside cafe owner. This begins a chain of events that culminates in murder. Based on a novel by James M. Cain.

Presumed Innocent (1990)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ford, Harrison | Dennehy, Brian | Julia, Raul | Bedelia, Bonnie | Winfield, Paul | Scacchi, Greta | Spencer, John | Grifasi, Joe | Mardirosian, Tom | Horsford, Anna Maria | Shimono, Sab | Whitford, Bradley | Estabrook, Christine | Tolan, Michael | Arnold, Madison
Directors: Pakula, Alan J.
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Carolyn Polhemus, an up-and-comer in the Kindle County D.A.’s Office, is found viciously murdered in her home. Immediately her boss, D.A. Raymond Horgan (Dennehy) and his chief deputy, Rusty Sabich (Ford) start an investigation. Horgan, however, is in the middle of a campaign to keep his job, which he ultimately loses to former subordinate Nico Della Guardia (Mardirosian). Della Guardia & his new deputy, Tommy Molto, decide to prosecute Sabich for Carolyn’s murder when it is revealed that Sabich was a former lover of Polhemus. Horgan also turns against his former subordinate, and Rusty soon realizes he has few friends left - except for Sandy Stern (Raul Julia), whom he has often faced on the other side of the courtroom, and who will become his new defense lawyer when he is put on trial for murder. Investigation by Stern & his team leads them to think that Rusty was framed for murder - by Molto, who wanted Sabich’s job and was trying to punish him for backing Horgan. Is Rusty Sabich innocent…or is he a murderer?

JFK (1991)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Costner, Kevin | Jones, Tommy Lee | Taggart, Gary | Bacon, Kevin | Ramirez, Anthony | LePere, Ray | Metcalf, Laurie | Oldman, Gary | Rooker, Michael | Sanders, Jay O. | Spacek, Sissy | Lemmon, Jack | Pesci, Joe | Kirkland, Sally | Morris, E.J.
Directors: Stone, Oliver
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Part fact and part opinion, mainly of Jim Garrison and director Oliver Stone, as to the events surrounding the proposed conspiracy of the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison began a probe into the actions of the F.B.I. and other officials of whom he suspected where covering up information that could lead to evidence of multiple shooters. The motive is believed to be to escalate the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. President Kennedy was attempting to prevent any further involvement in this situation, but which Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson supposedly promised the United States government that he would “give them the war”. Thus, the motive for eliminating President Kennedy. The movie also details the events of many people involved in the assassination, from Lee Harvey Oswald to Clay Shaw, a prominent figure in New Orleans.

Civil Action, A (1998)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Travolta, John | Duvall, Robert | Shalhoub, Tony | Macy, William H. | Ivanek, Zeljko | Norris, Bruce | Lithgow, John | Quinlan, Kathleen | Jacobson, Peter | Mara, Mary | Gandolfini, James | Fry, Stephen | Hedaya, Dan | Thornton, David | Pollack, Sydney
Directors: Zaillian, Steven
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Jan Schlichtmann is a successful lawyer whose practically his own entrepreneur. He’s a humble bachelor with a nice car, a nice house, and a career that has amassed huge rewards. Not to mention being the founder and practice of the lucrative law firm he runs with his Boston partners, all in a case’s settlement. However, when the families of deceased children sue a giant food conglomerate, with the accusation of their companies are responsible for poisoning their children and afflicting them fatally with cancer. Jan cames to the rescue, thinking it’s one more case he can easily knock out of the park and make a fortune, as well as a name for he and his firm. With a class action lawsuit to file, Jan willingly puts himself and his firm as representatives of those families. However, it’s one case that could ruin Jan: his pride, his ambition, and ultimately, his career. As the pressures of the case begin to take their turn on both the prosecution, the defense, as well as the families, Jan is about to realize that he has taken on the biggest case of his life, and there is a price to pay.

Dangerous Beauty (1998)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: McCormack, Catherine | Sewell, Rufus | Platt, Oliver | Kelly, Moira | Watts, Naomi | Ward, Fred | Bisset, Jacqueline | Krabbé, Jeroen | Cassidy, Joanna | Kanakaredes, Melina | Lapaine, Daniel | Miceli, Justine | Weber, Jake | Dutton, Simon | Russell, Grant
Directors: Herskovitz, Marshall
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In 16th century Venice, courtesans enjoy unique privileges: dressed richly in red, they read, compose poetry and music, and discuss affairs of state with the men who govern the Republic. When Veronica Franco comes of age, she cannot marry Marco Venier, whom she loves, because she is well born but penniless. Her choice: cloister or courtesan. She steels her heart, and with beauty and intelligence becomes the best. She’s a heroine when she helps convince France to aid Venice in war with Turkey, but when plague descends, the Church charges her with witchcraft. At her inquisition, she must match wits with an old rival, speak for all women, and call courage from Venier.

Christmas Orange, The (2002)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: Canada
Actors: McKinnon, Danny | Brown, Don | Tickner, French | McNeil, Scott | Kennedy, Ellen
Directors: Freedman, Ian
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