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The Verdict

Cast

Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason View All


Crew

David Mamet (Screenplay), Sidney Lumet (Director), Jay Presson Allen (Writer) View All

Release: Dec. 8th, 1982
Runtime: 2 hours, 9 minutes
Frank Galvin is a down-on-his luck lawyer, reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing. Former associate Mickey Morrissey reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit that he himself served to Galvin on a silver platter: all parties willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, he suddenly realizes that perhaps after all the case should go to court; to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement...
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PHOENIX74
It's a great film for those of us who are sick of corruption, and want to believe that court is the great leveler that it's meant to be (but is, in all actuality, mainly the great escape-hatch for the rich.) Lumet and Mamet made for a great combination, and when Newman was added to the mix then this....
Rockatansky
Similar to Scorsese's movie, there's a deep appreciation of Newman as a movie star, and the movie generates a certain tension between Newman's immense charisma and the state of his character.
Gideon58
Director Sidney Lumet and screenwriter David Mamet have mounted an effective blend of courtroom drama and character study that rivets the viewer from the opening shot of the central character that clearly establishes who Frank Galvin is before we've learned anything else.


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