Posts Tagged ‘courtroom’

Carlito’s Way (1993)

Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pacino, Al | Penn, Sean | Miller, Penelope Ann | Leguizamo, John | Rogers, Ingrid | Guzmán, Luis | Rebhorn, James | Siravo, Joseph | Mortensen, Viggo | Foronjy, Richard | Porcel, Jorge | Minucci, Frank | Pasdar, Adrian | Ortiz, John | Salazar, Ángel
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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Carlito Brigante is released from jail after serving five years of a much longer stretch. He vows to go straight and to live life as a fine, upstanding citizen. He even rekindles a romance with his ex-lover. However, Carlito’s associates cannot seem to leave him in peace…his nephew involves him a pool-room gunfight, his lawyer asks him for “favours” which spiral out of control, and even an old friend (now a wheelchair bound paraplegic) tries to get him into trouble with the law. Carlito decides to make a run for Florida and the promise of a new life, but has one final dramatic escape to make from some hoods who believe (wrongly) that he was behind the murder of their boss.

Untouchables, The (1987)

Friday, September 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Costner, Kevin | Connery, Sean | Smith, Charles Martin | Garcia, Andy | De Niro, Robert | Bradford, Richard | Kehoe, Jack | Sullivan, Brad | Drago, Billy | Clarkson, Patricia | D'Ambrosio, Vito | Goldstein, Steven | Aylward, Peter | Harvey, Don | Swan, Robert
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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Federal agent Elliot Ness assembles a personal team of mob fighters to bring Chicago crime boss Al Capone to justice using unconventional means during the mob wars of the 1920s. This fictionalized account of the arrest of Al Capone is heavy on style and gunfire. The end shootout combines a baby carriage and stairs with a nod to Eisenstein’s _The Battleship Potemkin_.

Defending Your Life (1991)

Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Ahl, Michael | Streep, Meryl | Eckhouse, James | Beach, Gary | Cobb, Julie | Schuck, Peter | Winters, Time | Torn, Rip | Stuart, Sharlie | Black, Beth | Norcross, Clayton | McKrell, Jim | Albert, Wil | Allen, Sage
Directors: Brooks, Albert
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Yuppie Daniel Miller is killed in a car accident and goes to Judgment City, a waiting room for the afterlife. During the day, he must prove in a courtroom-style process that he successfully overcame his fears (a hard task, given the pitiful life we are shown); at night, he falls in love with Julia, the only other young person in town. Nights are a time of hedonistic pleasure, since you can (for instance) eat all you want without getting fat.

Baby Mama (2008)

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Poehler, Amy | Tina Fey | Kinnear, Greg | Shepard, Dax | Malco, Romany | Weaver, Sigourney | Martin, Steve | Tierney, Maura | Mailer, Stephen | Taylor, Holland | Rebhorn, James | O'Hare, Denis | Collins, Kevin | Forte, Will | Armisen, Fred
Directors: McCullers, Michael
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Successful and single businesswoman Kate Holbrook has long put her career ahead of a personal life. Now 37, she’s finally determined to have a kid on her own. But her plan is thrown a curve ball after she discovers she has only a million-to-one chance of getting pregnant. Undaunted, the driven Kate allows South Philly working girl Angie Ostrowiski to become her unlikely surrogate. Simple enough … After learning from the steely head of their surrogacy center that Angie is pregnant, Kate goes into precision nesting mode: reading childcare books, baby-proofing the apartment and researching top pre-schools. But the executive’s well-organized strategy is turned upside down when her Baby Mama shows up at her doorstep with no place to live. An unstoppable force meets an immovable object as structured Kate tries to turn vibrant Angie into the perfect expectant mom. In a battle of wills, they will struggle their way through preparation for the baby’s arrival. And in the middle of this tug-of-war, they’ll discover two kinds of family: the one you’re born to and the one you make.

I Am Sam (2001)

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Penn, Sean | Schiff, Richard | Silverman, Brad | Rosenberg, Joseph | DeSantis, Stanley | Hutchison, Doug | Jenkins, Ken | Lucero, Mason | Paulin, Scott | Cooper, Bobby | Silver, Michael B. | Bebak, Chase MacKenzie | Weigel, Rafer | Spiner, Brent | Schwartz, David Nathan
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Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. He names his daughter Lucy Diamond (after the Beatles song), and raises her. But as she reaches age 7 herself, Sam’s limitations start to become a problem at school; she’s intentionally holding back to avoid looking smarter than him. The authorities take her away, and Sam shames high-priced lawyer Rita Harrison into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love, and whether it’s really all you need.

Class Action (1991)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Hackman, Gene | Friels, Colin | Fishburne, Laurence | Moffat, Donald | Rubes, Jan | Clark, Matt | Thompson, Fred Dalton | Silverman, Jonathan | Byron, David | Hopper, Tim | Hall, Robert David | Reynolds, Ren | Moy, Wood | Talmadge, Victor | Grantham, Ken
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Jeb Ward is an attorney who specializes in whistle blower, David vs. Goliath, type cases. He finds a client who is suing an auto company over a safety problem that has had a severe effect on his life after the accident. He must replace the current atorney and be ready for trial quickly, and then he finds that the defense atorney will be his estranged daughter.

Bonfire of the Vanities, The (1990)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Willis, Bruce | Rubinek, Saul | Freeman, Morgan | Hancock, John | Dunn, Kevin | James, Clifton | Giambalvo, Louis | Heyman, Barton | Parker, Norman | Moffat, Donald | King, Alan | Fuller, Kurt | LeFevre, Adam | Libertini, Richard
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Financial “Master of the Universe” Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss.

Sleepers (1996)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bacon, Kevin | Crudup, Billy | De Niro, Robert | Gassman, Vittorio | Driver, Minnie | Hoffman, Dustin | Eldard, Ron | Perrino, Joseph | Patric, Jason | Wigdor, Geoffrey | Pitt, Brad | Kinney, Terry | Renfro, Brad | Kirby, Bruno | Medrano, Frank
Directors: Levinson, Barry
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Four boys growing up in Hell’s Kitchen play a prank that leads to an old man getting hurt. Sentenced to no less than one year in the Wilkenson Center in upstate New York, the four friends are changed by the beating, humiliation and sexual abuse by the guards sworn to protect them. Thirteen years later and a chance meeting lead to a chance for revenge against the Wilkenson Center and the guards.

Lipstick (1976)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Hemingway, Margaux | Sarandon, Chris | King, Perry | Gammell, Robin | Perry, John Bennett | Mariel Hemingway | Scavullo, Francesco | Wyllie, Meg | Swenson, Inga | Jones, Lauren | Burns, William Paul | Bandy, Way | King, Harry | Byrnes, Sean | McLeod, Catherine
Directors: Johnson, Lamont
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A model (played by Margaux Hemingway) is raped by her younger sister’s (Mariel Hemingway) teacher. He gets off on a technicality and proceeds to attempt to rape the younger sister.

Moonlight Mile (2002)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Gyllenhaal, Jake | Hoffman, Dustin | Sarandon, Susan | Pompeo, Ellen | Landeau, Aleksia | Messing, Richard | Friedman, Lev | Clendenin, Bob | Fyfe, Jim | Trainor, Mary Ellen | Fancy, Richard | Mitzman Gaven, Marcia | Corduner, Allan | Hunter, Holly | Melia, Careena
Directors: Silberling, Brad
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A young man lingers in the family home of his fiancee, after her accidental death. While grieving along with her parents and drawn into legal issues presented by a district attorney seeking justice for the family, he finds himself falling in love with another woman, against his own best intentions.