Posts Tagged ‘courtroom’

The Crucible (1996)

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis | Winona Ryder | Paul Scofield | Joan Allen | Bruce Davison | Rob Campbell | Jeffrey Jones | Peter Vaughan | Karron Graves | Charlayne Woodard | Frances Conroy | Elizabeth Lawrence | George Gaynes | Mary Pat Gleason | Robert Breuler
Directors: Nicholas Hytner
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A small group of teen girls in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts caught in an innocent conjuring of love potions to catch young men are forced to tell lies that Satan had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites and are then forced to name those involved. Thrown into the mix are greedy preachers and other major landowners trying to steal others’ land and one young woman (Ryder) infatuated with a married man (Day-Lewis) and determined to get rid of his innocent wife (Allen). Arthur Miller wrote the events and the subsequent trials where those who demanded thier innocence were executed, those who would not name names were incarcerated and tortured, and those who admitted their guilt were immediately freed as a parable of the Congressional Communist witch hunts led by Senator Joe McCarthy in 1950’s America.

On the Waterfront (1954)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Marlon Brando | Karl Malden | Lee J. Cobb | Rod Steiger | Pat Henning | Leif Erickson | James Westerfield | Tony Galento | Tami Mauriello | John F. Hamilton | John Heldabrand | Rudy Bond | Don Blackman | Arthur Keegan | Abe Simon
Directors: Elia Kazan
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The Waterfront Crime Commission is about to hold public hearings on union crime and underworld infiltration. As workers are turned against each other, Terry Malloy inadvertently participates in the murder of fellow longshoreman Joey Doyle. Union boss Johnny Friendly orchestrates the murder along with other illegal dockside activities, aided by Terry’s brother Charley. Terry begins to feel pangs of conscience. When Joey’s sister Edie sees more in Terry than he sees in himself and Father Barry urges him on, Terry reassesses his past and begins to regain responsibility for his actions.

Good Will Hunting (1997)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Robin Williams | Matt Damon | Ben Affleck | Stellan Skarsgård | Minnie Driver | Casey Affleck | Cole Hauser | John Mighton | Rachel Majorowski | Colleen McCauley | Matt Mercier | Ralph St. George | Rob Lynds | Dan Washington | Alison Folland
Directors: Gus Van Sant
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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.

Dangerous Beauty (1998)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Catherine McCormack | Rufus Sewell | Oliver Platt | Fred Ward | Naomi Watts | Moira Kelly | Jacqueline Bisset | Jeroen Krabbé | Joanna Cassidy | Melina Kanakaredes | Daniel Lapaine | Justine Miceli | Jake Weber | Simon Dutton | Grant Russell
Directors: Marshall Herskovitz
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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.

Primal Fear (1996)

Friday, May 8th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Richard Gere | Laura Linney | Edward Norton | John Mahoney | Frances McDormand | Alfre Woodard | Terry O'Quinn | Andre Braugher | Steven Bauer | Joe Spano | Tony Plana | Stanley Anderson | Maura Tierney | Jon Seda | Reg Rogers
Directors: Gregory Hoblit
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Courtroom thriller about a slick, hotshot lawyer (Richard Gere) who takes the seemingly unwinnable case of a young altar boy (Edward Norton) accused of murdering an eminent catholic priest.

The Client (1994)

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Susan Sarandon | Tommy Lee Jones | Mary-Louise Parker | Anthony LaPaglia | J.T. Walsh | Anthony Edwards | Brad Renfro | Will Patton | Bradley Whitford | Anthony Heald | Kim Coates | Kimberly Scott | David Speck | William H. Macy | Ossie Davis
Directors: Joel Schumacher
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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 buried. Mark escapes, and Clifford shoots himself. Mark is found at the scene, and both the FBI and the Mafia quickly realize that Mark probably knows more than he says. Mark decides he needs a lawyer, and goes looking for one. He finds Reggie Love, who also becomes convinced that Mark knows more than he says, but Mark isn’t talking…

Civil Action, A (1998)

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: John Travolta | Robert Duvall | Tony Shalhoub | William H. Macy | Zeljko Ivanek | Bruce Norris | John Lithgow | Kathleen Quinlan | Peter Jacobson | Mary Mara | James Gandolfini | Stephen Fry | Dan Hedaya | David Thornton | Sydney Pollack
Directors: Steven Zaillian
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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 comes 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.

Here on Earth (2000)

Friday, April 17th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Chris Klein | Leelee Sobieski | Josh Hartnett | Michael Rooker | Annie Corley | Bruce Greenwood | Annette O'Toole | Elaine Hendrix | Stuart Wilson | Ronni Saxon | Maureen O'Malley | Tac Fitzgerald | Jessica Stier | Erik Eidem | Zach Fehst
Directors: Mark Piznarski
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The lives of three young people - a rich student, a girl from the “wrong side of the tracks” and her boyfriend - unexpectedly intersect during one fateful summer in the romantic drama “Here on Earth.” Kelley Morse (Chris Klein), who is cocky and brash, normally would never have crossed paths with the residents of a small town near his posh private school. But when he takes his shiny new Mercedes out for a drive, he locks horns with some of the locals, including Jasper (Josh Hartnett). As Jasper’s willful girlfriend Samantha (Leelee Sobieski) looks on, Kelley and Jasper engage in a dangerous car race that turns disastrous, leaving a popular diner owned by Samantha’s mother in ruins. Kelley and Jasper are sentenced to a creatively ironic but fitting punishment: They must help rebuild the diner. Not only does this ruin Kelley’s summer plans, he also must board at the home of his rival, Jasper. Kelley begins to fulfill his “sentence,” but refuses to have anything to do with Jasper and his parents. When Kelley again encounters Samantha, the attraction is immediate and strong. First love blossoms in the Berkshire woods (”a little bit of heaven, here on earth,” Samantha calls the pastoral setting), angering Jasper, who has known Samantha practically his entire life. These new feelings and the romantic triangle that develops are only the beginning of a new journey for Kelley, Samantha and Jasper, as they ultimately make life-changing discoveries about themselves and each other.

One Way (2006)

Monday, April 6th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany
Actors: Til Schweiger | Lauren Lee Smith | Sebastien Roberts | Stefanie von Pfetten | Michael Clarke Duncan | Art Hindle | Sonja Smits | Eric Roberts | Kenneth Welsh | Ned Bellamy | Trevor Roberts | Jim Boeven | Steve Byers | Mark Clifton | Sebastian Gacki
Directors: Reto Salimbeni
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In New York, the competent creative director of Birk Advertising Eddie Shneider is living a successful moment of his professional life and is engaged and has just proposed Judy Birk, the daughter of the owner of the company where he works. Eddie is also a wolf and very successful with many women, and is having an affair with a neighbor of the street where he lives with Judy. When he gets the account of the greatest American airline for his company, he is promoted to partner and he celebrates with his assistant and friend Angelina Sable in a lunch party in a restaurant. After hours, when they are in the garage, Angeline notes that she had forgotten her car keys in the office, and when she returns, she is violently raped by the despicable brother of Judy, Anthony Birk. On the next morning, when Eddie arrives in the garage, he finds the traumatized Angeline on the floor and he takes her to a hospital. He returns to the company and Anthony blackmails Eddie with pictures of his many affairs. Eddie has to take a side between his career and engagement and his friendship with Angeline.

It Could Happen to You (1994)

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicolas Cage | Bridget Fonda | Rosie Perez | Wendell Pierce | Isaac Hayes | Víctor Rojas | Seymour Cassel | Stanley Tucci | J.E. Freeman | Red Buttons | Richard Jenkins | Robert Dorfman | Charles Busch | Beatrice Winde | Ginny Yang
Directors: Andrew Bergman
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Charlie Lang, a New York cop with a heart of gold, wins a share of the lottery. However, the day before, having been caught without enough money to tip waitress (Yvonne), Charlie offers her half the winnings. Charlie’s wife, Muriel, is the complete opposite of her husband. She wants more and more money, and she’s not impressed by Charlie’s honest and kind nature. As Charlie and Muriel grow apart, Charlie and Yvonne grow together.