Paul Newman plays a Boston lawyer who takes a medical negligence case against a hospital and has to go up against powerful attorney Edward Concannon played by James Mason . The Verdict was nominated for five academy award but received none . Paul Newman's performance deserved to win . He is at his very best here as the washed up , alcoholic ...
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Andrew Beckett – Philadelphia (1993) Andrew Beckett – Philadelphia Source: TriStar Pictures. Inspired in part by the real life case of Geoffrey Bowers, Hanks gives an Oscar-winning performance as Andrew Beckett, the Ivy-educated lawyer whose employment is terminated when his law firm discovers he has contracted AIDS.
Tom Cruise has taken a bit of a press beating since Scientology took hold. Like or hate him, though, his high octane performance as Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee in A Few Good Men is one of his greatest performances of all time.
Finch is the lawyer we aspire to be, defending his client without fear or favour. Quotes: Atticus Finch: “If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view….
Fred Gailey : “Faith is believing when common sense tells you not to. Don’t you see? It’s not just Kris that’s on trial, it’s everything he stands for. It’s kindness and joy and love and all the other intangibles.”
Elle Woods – Legally Blonde Source: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Some might argue she’s flighty or vacuous, but Elle Woods is the kind of sharp, sweet, hip-swinging lawyer that just brings a smile to your face. I am pretty certain a lot of young girls went to law school solely because of this film.
The seven Oscar-nominated film starred the A-List cast of James Stewart as the defense attorney and George C. Scott as the prosecutor.
Al Pacino plays a manic and angry lawyer who must represent a judge accused of rape. The film was famous for Pacino’s line, “ You’re out of order! You’re out of order! The whole trial is out of order! They’re out of order!” and the screenplay rightfully was nominated for an Oscar.
This thriller explores a case where a small Boston law firm takes on two conglomerates who they claim caused leukemia-related deaths in eight children. The Oscar-nominated film stars John Travolta as a lawyer obsessed with fighting a better-funded enemy.
Even those who haven’t seen the movie know the pivotal scene of A Few Good Men when Jack Nicholson’s character barks at Tom Cruise’s character, “You can’t handle the truth!” The courtroom drama about two Marines accused of killing one of their colleagues was written by A-list scribe, Aaron Sorkin, and it was loosely based off of a military case prosecuted by David Iglesias, who later become the Attorney General of New Mexico.
A Man for All Seasons. Legal movies don’t just have to deal with the modern justice system. In A Man for All Seasons, Sir Thomas More, played by Paul Scofield, plays a judge who is caught in the trial between Henry VIII and the Roman Catholic Church.
Steven Spielberg directed this 1997 film about a lawyer, played by Matthew McConaughey, who represents slaves involved in a slavery ship uprising. Although it was nominated for four Oscars, critics said that the film took too many liberties with the facts. Despite the controversy, Amistad examined our country’s history with slavery and how the law was used for and against it.
“Yes, they deserve to die, and I hope they burn in hell!” That was a powerful line spoken by Samuel L. Jackson in A Time to Kill, a John Grisham novel-turned-feature film. In the movie, Jackson plays a black father in a Southern town who murders the white supremacists who raped his young daughter. Matthew McConaughey, who plays a lawyer oh-so-well, plays a lawyer in this story who puts his life and family in danger in order to do what’s right.
Anatomy of a Murder - In a murder trial, the defendant says he only killed the man after suffering temporary insanity when the victim raped his wife.#N#Length: 160 minutes#N#Direct or: Otto Preminger#N#Stars: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara#N#Watch Movie: Anatomy of a Murder
The Client - A small boy who saw the suicide of a mafia lawyer hires an attorney to help protect him when the DA tries to use him to take down the mob family.#N#Length: 119 minutes# N#Director: Joel Schumacher#N#Stars: Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Renfro#N#Watch Movie: The Client
Murder in the First - A young attorney defends an Alcatraz prisoner who has been accused of killing another inmate, despite his client having just spent over three years in solitary confinement.#N#Length: 122 minutes#N# Director: Marc Rocco#N#Stars: Christian Slater, Kevin Bacon, Gary Oldman#N#Watch Movie: Murder in the First
Reversal of Fortune - Rich Sunny von BĂĽlow lies brain-dead, and husband Claus is found guilty of attempted murder; but he maintains his innocence and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.#N#Length: 111 minutes#N#Director : Barbet Schroeder#N#Stars: Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, Ron Silver#N#Watch Movie: Reversal of Fortune
Legal Eagles - A New York DA works and flirts with his legal opponent and her bizarre artist client, who is on trial for a murder that she didn't commit.#N#Length: 116 minutes#N#Direct or: Ivan Reitman.#N#Stars: Robert Redford, Debra Winger, Daryl Hannah#N#Watch Movie: Legal Eagles
Absence of Malice - When a prosecutor leaks an untrue story that a warehouse owner is involved in the murder of a local union head, the man's life begins to come apart.#N#Length: 116 minutes#N#Director : Sydney Pollack#N#Stars : Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban#N#Watch Movie: Absence of Malice
Breaker Morant - Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for killings prisoners as a way of diverting attention from war crimes committed by their superiors.#N#Length: 107 minutes#N#Direct or: Bruce Beresford#N#Stars: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters#N#Watch Movie: Breaker Morant
Tom Hanks plays an AIDS-infected attorney, Andrew Beckett, at a large Philadelphia-based law firm. Fired from the law firm, purportedly for work-related issues, Beckett hires his own attorney, played by Denzel Washington, and proceeds to sue his prior employer. As usual, solid performances by both Hanks and Washington.
Paul Newman plays a washed-up attorney, Frank Galvin, whose partner hands him a “sure win” medical malpractice case to help him get back on his feet. However, not surprisingly, things go terribly wrong before Frank is able to pull himself, and the case, together at the last moment. A wonderful performance by Newman.
Sean Penn plays a father with a developmental disability seeking custody of his seven year old daughter (played by Dakota Fanning). Michelle Pfeiffer plays his lawyer. The Hereafter: Defending Your Life (1991): I’m probably cheating with this one, but I’m including it anyway.
Lawsuits against movies and filmmakers often stem from copyright infringement, plagiarism, or inaccurate details surrounding true events. In some cases, a lawsuit is filed as a quick way to get a piece of a widely popular movie’s box office gross. Here are eight movies that led to legal action.
While in Louisiana, Edmondson shot convenience store cashier Patsy Byers, rendering her a quadriplegic. Byers then filed a lawsuit against her assailants and the filmmakers behind Natural Born Killers in 1996. She claimed that the violence depicted in the film drove Edmondson and Darras to go on a similar crime spree.
The latest film from British director Paul Greengrass tells the heroic story of Captain Richard Phillips, the captain of the MV Maersk Alabama, and his ordeal when Somali pirates hijacked his cargo ship in 2009. While the film version of Phillips was painted as an ...
The plaintiff designed the tattoo specifically for Mike Tyson and therefore claimed it was a copyrighted work. Whitmill claimed that Warner Bros. had no right to put his work in the film or in any promotional materials attached to The Hangover Part II.
In 1995, Sarah Edmondson and her boyfriend Benjamin James Darras went on a violent crime spree through Mississippi and Louisiana after watching Oliver Stone’s controversial movie Natural Born Killers. While in Louisiana, Edmondson shot convenience store cashier Patsy Byers, rendering her a quadriplegic.
Please try again later. The latest film from British director Paul Greengrass tells the heroic story of Captain Richard Phillips, the captain of the MV Maersk Alabama, and his ordeal when Somali pirates hijacked his cargo ship in 2009. While the film version of Phillips was painted as an everyman who tried everything in his power to prevent ...
28, 1978, Scott Newman, the oldest of Mr. Newman’s six children and his only son, died at 28 of an overdose of alcohol and pills. His father’s monument to him was the Scott Newman Center, created to publicize the dangers of drugs and alcohol.
Paul Newman, one of the last of the great 20th-century movie stars, died Friday at his home in Westport, Conn. He was 83. The cause was cancer, said Jeff Sanderson of Chasen & Company, Mr. Newman’s publicists. If Marlon Brando and James Dean defined the defiant American male as a sullen rebel, Paul Newman recreated him as a likable renegade, ...
Paul Newman in 2006. Credit... As the self-destructive convict in “Cool Hand Luke” (1967) Mr. Newman was too rebellious to be broken by a brutal prison system. As Butch Cassidy in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” (1969) he was the most amiable and antic of bank robbers, memorably paired with Robert Redford.
Paul Leonard Newman was born on Jan. 26, 1925, in Cleveland. His mother, the former Teresa Fetzer, was a Roman Catholic who turned to Christian Science. His father, Arthur, who was Jewish, owned a thriving sporting goods store that enabled the family to settle in affluent Shaker Heights, Ohio, where Paul and his older brother, Arthur, grew up.
Image. Paul Newman with his wife, Joanne Woodward, in 2002 outside the Westport Country Playhouse in Westport, Conn. Credit... Sara Krulwich/The New York Times. His antidote for that early Hollywood experience was to hurry back to Broadway.
Stardom arrived a year and a half later, when he inherited from James Dean the role of the boxer Rocky Graziano in “Somebody Up There Likes Me.” Mr. Dean had been killed in a car crash before the screenplay was finished. It was a rapid rise for Mr. Newman, but being taken seriously as an actor took longer.
Newman was a student. After directing “The Long, Hot Summer,” Mr. Ritt directed Mr. Newman in “Paris Blues” (1961), a story of expatriate musicians; “Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man” (1962); “Hud” (1963), which brought Mr. Newman a third Oscar nomination; “The Outrage” (1964), with Mr. Newman as the bandit in a western based on Akira Kurosawa’s “Rashomon”; and “Hombre” (1967), in which Mr. Newman played a white man, reared by Indians, struggling to live in a white world.