A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of Senator Boyd Boyette is …
The 25 Best Courtroom/Legal/Lawyer Movies of All Time. 1. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Error: please try again. Atticus Finch, a widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.
Frank Galvin (Paul Newman) is a rundown drunk lawyer chasing cases in the obituaries and spending his days in a bar. He was accused of jury tampering and resigned from his job. His former associate Mickey Morrissey (Jack Warden) gives him an easy medical malpractice suit.
Dec 24, 2020 · Top 20 Court/Law Movies. Menu. ... Mississippi, a fearless young lawyer and his assistant defend a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his ten-year-old daughter, inciting violent retribution and revenge from the Ku Klux Klan. ... A lawyer defending a wealthy man begins to believe his client is guilty of more than just one ...
A prosecuting attorney-turned-defense lawyer falls in love with a rich, charming client who's been accused of murdering his wife and her maid with a hunting knife in this film,Jagged Edge.The story is about a taut mystery about an attorney who defends a newspaper publisher accused of murder.It stars Jeff Bridges and Glenn Close together with Peter Coyote and Robert Loggia.
Defense attorney Richard Ramsey (Keanu Reeves) takes on a personal case when he swears to his widowed friend, Loretta Lassiter (Renée Zellweger), that he will keep her son Mike (Gabriel Basso) out of prison. Charged with murdering his father, Mike initially confesses to the crime.
Daniel Craig was originally set to star, and pulled out four days before filming was supposed to begin. He was replaced by Keanu Reeves.
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Erin Brockovich is a 2000 American biographical legal drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Susannah Grant.
Erin Brockovich was released on March 17, 2000, in 2,848 theaters and grossed $28.1 million on its opening weekend. It went on to make $126.6 million in North America and $130.7 million in the rest of the world for a worldwide total of $257.3 million.
It holds a certified "Fresh" rating of 84% on the film review website Rotten Tomatoes based on 148 reviews, with an average rating of 7.50/10. The consensus states, "Taking full advantage of Julia Roberts's considerable talent and appeal, Erin Brockovich overcomes a few character and plot issues to deliver a smart, thoughtful, and funny legal drama." On Metacritic, the film holds a score of 73 out of 100 based on 36 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews."
Awards and honors. For her portrayal, Julia Roberts became the first actress to win an Academy Award, BAFTA, Critics' Choice Movie Award, Golden Globe Award, National Board of Review, and Screen Actors Guild Award for a single performance.
Erin begins digging into the case and finds evidence that the groundwater in Hinkley is seriously contaminated with carcinogenic hexavalent chromium, while PG&E has been telling Hinkley residents that they use a safer form of chromium.
Michael B. Jordan as Bryan Stevenson in “Just Mercy.”. (Jake Netter / Warner Bros.) Yet before he became a prominent advocate in the justice reform movement, one who inspired others to action in a viral TED Talk, Stevenson was the idealistic young lawyer we meet in the opening scenes of “Just Mercy,” — inexperienced, ...
Michael B. Jordan, left, portrays attorney Bryan Stevenson opposite Jamie Foxx as Walter McMillian, a man wrongly convicted for a murder he did not commit, in “Just Mercy.”. (Jake Netter / Warner Bros. ) His book became a bestseller but he realized that its message could reach even more people in film form.
They laughed, falling into an easy rhythm — the movie star and the lawyer, whose personal missions intertwine in “Just Mercy,” which opens nationwide Friday after a limited Christmas berth. Jordan, 32, known for his roles as Oakland police-brutality victim Oscar Grant in “Fruitvale Station,” villain Erik Killmonger in “Black Panther” ...
Michael B. Jordan is crusading attorney Bryan Stevenson opposite Jamie Foxx, Brie Larson, Tim Blake Nelson and more in a drama of death row justice. It is this Stevenson whom Jordan locates at a pivotal moment in his professional and emotional life.
Now 60, Stevenson is cofounder of the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit that combats racial and economic inequity in the criminal justice system. In a 35-year career he’s saved 125 prisoners from death row, including condemned men whose cases and traumas are depicted with sensitivity in “Just Mercy.”.
Before they met, Stevenson had been an admirer of Jordan’s acting on “The Wire” and “Friday Night Lights.” “It was such a strong and human story,” Stevenson said of “FNL,” “and I loved ‘Fruitvale Station.’” But it wasn’t until the two sat down to get to know one another, after Jordan finished filming the Oscar-nominated “Black Panther,” that a bond grew between them.