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Top 25 Courtroom
Dramas Ever: Order in
the Court!
What are the elements of a great courtroom drama? A
case that's more complicated than it appears, lawyers
who grapple with moral quandaries, witnesses who offer
surprises in their testimony, a connection to suspensefulevents outside the courtroom and (just maybe) Matthew
McConaughey.
McConaughey gave up pre-law college studies to pursue
acting, but he's made up for it by playing trial lawyers in
such movies as 'A Time to Kill,' 'Amistad,' and now 'The
Lincoln Lawyer.' In this new film, based on the character
created by author Michael Connelly, McConaughey plays
Mickey Haller, a slick Los Angeles defense attorney
whose office is the back of his sedan. His latest case,
defending a playboy (Ryan Phillippe) accused of
attempted murder, presents Mickey with some
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unexpected twists and moral dilemmas.
It's no wonder that McConaughey is drawn to such
dramas. The courtroom is an inherently dramatic stage,
where conflict is built into the proceedings, where
everyone has a part to play but none of them knows what
the outcome will be, and where life-and-death issues aredistilled into individual, personal stories.
Prompted by the release of 'Lincoln Lawyer,' we've
compiled a list of the greatest courtroom dramas of all
time. See if you think 'Lincoln Lawyer' will ultimately merit
a place on this list, and let us know if we've left out any of
your favorites.
25. 'A Time to Kill' (1996). In this John Grishamadaptation, McConaughey is a Southern lawyer defending
a black man (Samuel L. Jackson) who has killed the
bigots who raped his pre-teen daughter. McConaughey
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must also protect his own family from violent Klansmen,
forestall a potential race war, and resist the charms of a
comely law student (Sandra Bullock). There's a lot of
shameless pandering and button-pushing in the movie,
none of which makes it any less effective or cathartic.
24. 'Intruder in the Dust' (1949). The best film version of
any William Faulkner story, 'Intruder' stars the dignified
Juano Hernandez as an aloof black man unjustly accused
of murder in the Jim Crow South. He has an able white
lawyer, but the movie's real hero is the lawyer's nephew
('The Yearling's' Claude Jarman Jr.), a boy who knows
the defendant to be a man of integrity and is one of the
few white people in town who can see past race and is
willing to sift through the evidence to find the real killer.
Years before 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' or even the advent of
the civil rights movement, the film paints an unsparing,
documentary-like portrait (it was shot on location in
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Faulkner's hometown of Oxford, Miss.) of how justice in
that time and place was far from blind to racial
differences.
23. 'Kramer vs. Kramer' (1979). Most of the movie is
about how Dustin Hoffman learns to be a good single dad
to his little boy, but it's the last third of the film, which
contains the custody battle that gives the movie its title,
that's the real gut-puncher. In the courtroom, ex-wife
Meryl Streep's lawyer successfully smears the responsible
dad we've seen Hoffman become, painting him instead as
a reckless cad. The moral: No one's really a winner in a
legal system that only amplifies the bitterness that tears
families apart.
22. 'Primal Fear' (1996). Richard Gere is an
unscrupulous, showboating defense attorney who gets his
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karmic comeuppance in the form of a murder defendant
(Edward Norton) who appears harmless but whose
twisted psyche harbors horrible secrets. There's a
massive plot twist here that makes all the smart
characters played by smart actors (Gere, Laura Linney,
Frances McDormand, Alfre Woodard, and others) look
like suckers, but then, viewers who saw this movie when it
first came out were happily suckered as well. It was
Norton's debut, and we had no idea then what a protean
talent he was; his astonishing performance depends
largely on his anonymity. Not entirely, though. Seen
today, his is still a clever, chilling performance that makes
the whole movie work.
21. 'Breaker Morant' (1980). In this real-life drama set
during the Boer War, Edward Woodward and Bryan
Brown give feisty performances as Australian officers
under British command who are court-martialed for war
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crimes. Their we-were-just-following-orders defense
probably wouldn't wash today in a post-Nuremberg world,
but it's also clear that the Aussies are scapegoats being
railroaded in order to serve the British Empire's political
aims. What's really on trial here is the dehumanizing
nature of modern guerrilla warfare, in which expedience
trumps honor and the line between soldiers and
murderers is easily blurred.
20. 'Philadelphia' (1993). The first mainstream Hollywood
movie to address AIDS and the prejudices surrounding it,
'Philadelphia' smartly uses the courtroom as a forum to
ask viewers to look beyond those prejudices to see issues
of basic fairness. As the ailing defendant wrongfully fired
from his law firm, Tom Hanks is a little too saintly and
perfect (he's like a gay Sidney Poitier character), but as
the everyman who is the audience surrogate in learning to
look past Hanks' sexual orientation and disease to see a
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man worthy of respect and justice, Denzel Washington
gives one of the warmest, most human performances of
his career.
19. 'A Civil Action' (1998). John Travolta uses his
formidable reserves of charisma as real-life lawyer Jan
Schlichtmann, fighting a deep-pocketed corporation on
behalf of townsfolk made ill by polluted water. But this is
not an 'Erin Brockovich' story about a heroic underdog
winning against all odds; rather, it's about a hotshot who
discovers that his passion and courtroom skills can take
him only so far in a system where the deck is stacked
against those of limited means, where litigation is a game
of financial chicken in which whoever blinks first loses.
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18. 'The Caine Mutiny' (1954). Humphrey Bogart is
unforgettable as Lt. Cmdr. Queeg, the petty, power-mad
ship captain who sparks a mutiny and a court-martial over
pilfered strawberries. He's not afraid to look
unsympathetic, even ridiculous, but he's still Bogart, so
he's still the most commanding person in the movie.
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17. 'Witness for the Prosecution' (1957). Charles
Laughton is on top of his game as a wily old defense
attorney, and Marlene Dietrich is at her sly best as the title
character, who's the sole alibi witness for her husband,
accused killer Tyrone Power, but who chooses to testify
against him instead. Billy Wilder's adaptation of Agatha
Christie's hit play is full of the cynical snap that is Wilder's
trademark.
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16. 'The People vs. Larry Flynt' (1996). As a First
Amendment martyr, pornographer Flynt (Woody
Harrelson, in his career-best performance) tends to treat
the courtroom as a circus, showing up in a diaper made
from an American flag or pelting the judge with oranges.
He's the only one present who seems to realize how
ridiculous it is that it keeps falling to the publisher of
Hustler to defend free speech rights. After all, he notes, if
the Constitution will protect a scumbag like himself, it'll
protect us all. Milos Forman's direction finds both
outrageous comedy and genuine pathos amid the Flynt
spectacle; as an artist who fled communist
Czechoslovakia, Forman knew all too well the importance
of free expression, which can't afford to be picky about its
champions.
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15. 'Paths of Glory' (1957). Kirk Douglas is a French
officer in World War I who's given the thankless task of
defending three poor grunts being court-martialed as
scapegoats for the bungling of their superior officers. In
his first of many anti-war movies, Stanley Kubrick expertly
mixes the surreal spectacle of combat with the stark
emptiness of the courtroom and the prison cell.
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14. 'In the Name of the Father' (1993). Director Jim
Sheridan addresses the Irish "Troubles" through the prism
of a story about a father and son at odds. Both Gerry
Conlon (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his father Giuseppe are
wrongly imprisoned for an IRA bombing, based on
coerced confessions. The lifelong tensions between the
hardworking D.A. and the son he considers a
disappointment continue behind bars, as their lawyer (a
tart-tongued Emma Thompson) spends 15 years trying to
get them released. The acting is top-notch, especially
Day-Lewis, as a ne'er-do-well who finally learns, via the
most extreme circumstances, how to make his father
proud.
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13. 'Presumed Innocent' (1990). In this adaptation of the
Scott Turow bestseller, prosecutor Harrison Ford finds
himself on the other side of the aisle when he stands trial
for the murder of a colleague who was also his mistress.
No one does righteous, wounded anger like Ford, but
here, his usual slow burn becomes a slow dawning of
horror as he gradually discovers over the course of the
film what really happened, forcing him to learn new
meanings for words like "guilt" and "punishment."
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12. 'Anatomy of a Murder' (1959). Never one to shy away
from controversy, director Otto Preminger touches on
several taboos with this drama about an army lieutenant
(Ben Gazzara) accused of killing the bartender he says
raped and beat his wife (Lee Remick). James Stewart
shines as the aw-shucks defense lawyer who must
determine what really happened.
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11. 'In Cold Blood' (1967). Truman Capote's celebrated
true-crime novel comes to the screen with a similar
mixture of documentary-like realism and poetic
psychological portraiture. The standout performance
comes from Robert Blake (yes, that Robert Blake) as one
of the two haunted, tormented killers.
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10. 'The Passion of Joan of Arc' (1928). Carl Theodor
Dryer's almost unbearably intimate film is shot mostly in
close-up, with Renee Falconetti giving one of the most
emotionally intense performances in film history as the
martyred French warrior heroine. The dialogue comes
from the actual transcripts of Joan's heresy trial, but in
this silent drama, Falconetti says it all with her face,
registering extreme states of determination, terror, and
beatific joy.
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9. 'The Accused' (1988). Jodie Foster won her first Oscar
for this drama (loosely based on a true story) about a
gang-rape victim who finds her own behavior and sexual
history put on trial. She's a revelation as a slattern who is
nobody's role model, but who learns (with the help of
lawyer Kelly McGillis) to stand up for herself as she
defends the right of all women not to be raped.
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8. 'A Man for All Seasons' (1966). Paul Scofield has the
role of his lifetime as Thomas More, who risks all by
sticking to his principles in opposition to his friend Henry
VIII's intention to divorce Catherine of Aragon to marry
Anne Boleyn. His firm stand isn't just about religious faith
in Catholic dogma but also about a humanist faith in the
primacy of law.
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7. 'Judgment at Nuremberg' (1961). No less a figure of
moral rectitude than Spencer Tracy presides over this
distillation of the postwar trials of alleged Nazi war
criminals. An all-star cast that includes Burt Lancaster,
Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell,
Judy Garland, and Montgomery Clift pays homage to the
notion that sometimes, all that can be done to serve
justice is to give testimony recounting injustice, to
remember at a time when most people would rather
forget.
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6. 'The Crucible' (1996). Arthur Miller's play about the
Salem witch trials gets a gritty, impassioned retelling here,
with Daniel Day-Lewis in what might be called the Paul
Scofield role as the principled martyr and Scofield himself
doing a 180 from 'A Man for All Seasons' as the chief
inquisitor.
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5. 'Inherit the Wind' (1960). This exhilarating version of
the Broadway hit about the Scopes Monkey Trial stars a
rumpled Spencer Tracy as Clarence Darrow, arguing for
the teaching of evolution in Tennessee public schools
against a grandstanding Fredric March (as William
Jennings Bryan). Gene Kelly is tops too as a cynical
journalist based on H.L. Mencken.
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4. 'A Few Good Men' (1992). The king of all court-martial
movies, thanks to a crackling Aaron Sorkin script (based
on his play) and a cast firing on all cylinders, including
Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, Kevin Pollak, Kevin Bacon,
Kiefer Sutherland, J.T. Walsh, and of course, Jack
Nicholson. All together now: "You can't handle the truth!"
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3. '12 Angry Men' (1957). Sidney Lumet's debut feature
takes place entirely in the jury room, but it never feels
stagy or less than compelling, thanks to the inherently
dramatic deliberation over whether to convict or acquit a
murder defendant. Henry Fonda and Lee J. Cobb stand
out as the chief antagonists among the jurors.
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2. 'To Kill a Mockingbird' (1962). This adaptation of
Harper Lee's novel stars Gregory Peck as everyone's
favorite movie lawyer/single dad, Atticus Finch. His
defense of a black man (Brock Peters) framed for the
rape of a white woman in the segregated South offers a
surprising array of life lessons for young daughter Scout -
and for the moviegoer as well.
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1. 'The Verdict' (1982). Paul Newman gives the best
performance of his later career as Frank Galvin, an
alcoholic attorney who sees in a medical malpractice case
against a Catholic hospital his last, best shot at
redemption. Arrayed against him is wily old litigator James
Mason, the Boston Archdiocese, the Boston
medical/educational establishment, and the city's back-
room power structure (a specialty of director Sidney
Lumet's), all of whom have no compunction about playing
dirty to win. And yet, David Mamet's searing script (based
on Barry Reed's novel) dares to hope that the justice
system can, when we all take our parts seriously, reflect
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u do not chose ur dad
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Santosh Srivastava ·Schaumburg, Illinois
How come my cousin vinny is missing the list....
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Jarka Liskova ·
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it should cr own the list as its # 1.
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Rahul Muddadah ·VLB Janakiammal College of Engineering and Technology
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