Posts Tagged ‘lawyer’

Class Action (1991)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
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.

Next Best Thing, The (2000)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Madonna | Everett, Rupert | Bratt, Benjamin | Douglas, Illeana | Vartan, Michael | Sommer, Josef | Stumpf, Malcolm | Redgrave, Lynn | Harris, Neil Patrick | Valley, Mark | Krull, Suzanne | Edwards, Stacy | Lynch, John Carroll | Bennett, Fran | Lopez, Ricki
Directors: Schlesinger, John
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A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie (Madonna), the other a gay man, Robert (Rupert Everett) - who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away with her and Robert’s little boy Sam, and a nasty custody battle ensues.

Blue Streak (1999)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Lawrence, Martin | Wilson, Luke | Greene, Peter | Chappelle, Dave | Parker, Nicole Ari | Beckel, Graham | Miranda, Robert | Krupa, Olek | Guerra, Saverio | Sarafian, Richard C. | Jones, Tamala | Mechoso, Julio Oscar | Rankin, Steve | Argenziano, Carmen | Hawkes, John
Directors: Mayfield, Les
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Miles Logan is a jewel thief. Things go awry while he’s stealing a huge diamond in downtown L.A.: a thief, Deacon, tries a double-cross, the police arrive, and Miles is arrested, but not before he hides the jewel in an air duct of a building under construction. Two years’ later, he’s out of prison and he heads for the site: it’s L.A.’s new police headquarters! Posing as a reassigned cop, Miles gets into the building, but before he can recover the swag, he’s partnered with a naive detective and sent out to investigate burglaries. With Deacon on his trail, he must recover the diamond, keep the cops fooled, and do a few good deeds as a detective who can think like a criminal.

Liar Liar (1997)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Carrey, Jim | Tierney, Maura | Cooper, Justin | Elwes, Cary | Haney, Anne | Tilly, Jennifer | Donohoe, Amanda | Bernard, Jason | Kurtz, Swoosie | Ryan, Mitch | Mayer, Christopher | Pierpoint, Eric | Cobb, Randall 'Tex' | Oteri, Cheri | Fisher, SW
Directors: Shadyac, Tom
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The truth shall set you free — or get you into a heap of trouble! Fletcher Reede (Carrey) is a fast-talking attorney and habitual liar. When his son Max (Justin Cooper) blows out the candles on his fifth birthday cake, he has just one wish — that his dad will stop lying for 24 hours. When Max’s wish miraculously comes true, Fletcher discovers that his biggest asset — his mouth — has suddenly become his biggest liability! Havoc ensues as Fletcher tries to keep his practice afloat and his ex-wife Audrey (Maura Tierney) from taking their son and moving to Boston. Co-starring Jennifer Tilly, Swoosie Kurtz, Amanda Donohoe and Cary Elwes.

Age of Innocence, The (1993)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Day-Lewis, Daniel | Pfeiffer, Michelle | Ryder, Winona | Smith, Alexis | Chaplin, Geraldine | Hurt, Mary Beth | McCowen, Alec | Grant, Richard E. | Margolyes, Miriam | Leonard, Robert Sean | Phillips, Siân | Pryce, Jonathan | Gough, Michael | Woodward, Joanne | Wilson, Stuart
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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Society scion Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland, but his well-ordered life is upset when he meets May’s unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska. At first, Newland becomes a defender of the Countess, whose separation from her abusive husband makes her a social outcast in the restrictive high society of late-19th Century New York, but he finds in her a companion spirit and they fall in love.

1776 (1972)

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Family | History | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Daniels, William | Da Silva, Howard | Howard, Ken | Madden, Donald | Cullum, John | Poole, Roy | Ford, David | Holgate, Ron | Middleton, Ray | Hansen, William | Danner, Blythe | Vestoff, Virginia | Bass, Emory | Hill, Ralston | Caine, Howard
Directors: Hunt, Peter H.
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The film version of the Broadway musical comedy of the same name. In the days leading up to July 4, 1776, Continental Congressmen John Adams and Benjamin Franklin coerce Thomas Jefferson into writing the Declaration of Independence as a delaying tactic as they try to persuade the American colonies to support a resolution on independence. As George Washington sends depressing messages describing one military disaster after another, the businessmen, landowners and slave holders in Congress all stand in the way of the Declaration, and a single “nay” vote will forever end the question of independence. Large portions of spoken and sung dialog are taken directly from the letters and memoirs of the actual participants.

Who’s That Girl (1987)

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Music | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Madonna | Dunne, Griffin | Morris, Haviland | McMartin, John | Besch, Bibi | Mills, John | Swan, Robert | Pillsbury, Drew | Mundi, Coati | Burkley, Dennis | Dietz, James | Callan, Cecile | Baldwin, Karen Elise | Brown, Kimberlin | Carson, Crystal
Directors: Foley, James
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His soon-to-be father in law has the dopey lawyer Louden to give the pretty and no less self conscious Nikki Finn a ride from the prison to the bus station to ensure that she leaves town immediately. However Nikki has different plans: after being in prison many years for a murder she didn’t commit, she wants to find out who really killed her friend Johnny. Unscrupulously she uses Louden for her objectives.

Client, The (1994)

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sarandon, Susan | Jones, Tommy Lee | Parker, Mary-Louise | LaPaglia, Anthony | Walsh, J.T. | Edwards, Anthony | Renfro, Brad | Patton, Will | Whitford, Bradley | Heald, Anthony | Coates, Kim | Scott, Kimberly | Speck, David | Macy, William H. | Davis, Ossie
Directors: Schumacher, Joel
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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: Travolta, John | Duvall, Robert | Shalhoub, Tony | Macy, William H. | Ivanek, Zeljko | Norris, Bruce | Lithgow, John | Quinlan, Kathleen | Jacobson, Peter | Mara, Mary | Gandolfini, James | Fry, Stephen | Hedaya, Dan | Thornton, David | Pollack, Sydney
Directors: Zaillian, Steven
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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.

One Way (2006)

Monday, April 6th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany
Actors: Schweiger, Til | Smith, Lauren Lee | Roberts, Sebastien | von Pfetten, Stefanie | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Art Hindle | Sonja Smits | Roberts, Eric | Welsh, Kenneth | Bellamy, Ned | Roberts, Trevor | Boeven, Jim | Byers, Steve | Clifton, Mark | Gacki, Sebastian
Directors: Salimbeni, Reto
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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.