Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Mild
The story
Fresh out of law school and desperate for work, idealistic rookie Rudy Baylor takes on a powerful insurance company accused of denying a dying boy’s claim. Teaming up with a scrappy, unlicensed paralegal, he finds himself in a David-versus-Goliath courtroom battle that tests his ethics, courage, and belief in justice.
- based on novel or book
- court case
- jurors
- proof
- leukemia
- lawyer
- courtroom
- legal thriller
- inspirational
- dramatic
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Mary Kay Place — Dot Black
- Dean Stockwell — Judge Harvey Hale
- Mickey Rourke — Bruiser Stone
- Danny Glover — Richter Tyrone Kipler
- Virginia Madsen — Jackie Lemancyzk
- Randy Travis — Billy Porter
- Roy Scheider — Wilfred Keeley
- Red West — Buddy Black
- Johnny Whitworth — Donny Ray Black
- Andrew Shue — Cliff Riker
- Teresa Wright — Colleen 'Miss Birdie' Birdsong
- Directed
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Written
- Michael Herr, Francis Ford Coppola
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 1,538 ratings
- Studio
- Douglas/Reuther Productions, American Zoetrope, Constellation Films
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
