Tag Archives: trial

Fried Green Tomatoes

IMDB Rating: 7.40
19225 votes

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Evelyn Couch is having trouble in her marriage, and no one seems to take her seriously. While in a nursing home visiting relatives, she meets Ninny Threadgoode, an outgoing old woman, who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode, a young woman in 1920's Alabama. Through Idgie's inspiring life, Evelyn learns to be more assertive and builds a lasting friendship of her own with Ninny.
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Evelyn CouchKathy Bates
Idgie ThreadgoodeMary Stuart Masterson
Ruth JamisonMary-Louise Parker
Also posted in 1991, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Crucible

IMDB Rating: 6.80
9209 votes

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A small group of teen girls in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts caught in an innocent conjuring of love potions to catch young men are forced to tell lies that Satan had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites and are then forced to name those involved. Thrown into the mix are greedy preachers and other major landowners trying to steal others' land and one young woman (Ryder) infatuated with a married man (Day-Lewis) and determined to get rid of his innocent wife (Allen). Arthur Miller wrote the events and the subsequent trials where those who demanded thier innocence were executed, those who would not name names were incarcerated and tortured, and those who admitted their guilt were immediately freed as a parable of the Congressional Communist witch hunts led by Senator Joe McCarthy in 1950's America.
Actors
John ProctorDaniel Day-Lewis
Abigail WilliamsWinona Ryder
Judge Thomas DanforthPaul Scofield
Also posted in 1996, Drama, High IMDB rating, History | Comments (0)

A Civil Action

IMDB Rating: 6.30
11890 votes

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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.
Actors
Jan SchlichtmannJohn Travolta
Jerome FacherRobert Duvall
Kevin ConwayTony Shalhoub
Also posted in 1998, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Planet of the Apes

IMDB Rating: 8.00
42101 votes

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After having their ship crash on a mysterious planet, two US astronauts wander across the desert plain. Thinking they are alone, the surprise comes when life forms appear, not just as mute human but as apes. Walking, talking apes. The apes see themselves as the original beings on the planet and do anything to keep all humans locked up.
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George TaylorCharlton Heston
CorneliusRoddy McDowall
ZiraKim Hunter
Also posted in 1968, Action, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Anna and the King

IMDB Rating: 6.50
9710 votes

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This is the story of Anna Leonowens, the English schoolteacher who came to Siam in the 1860s to teach the children of King Mongkut. She becomes involved in his affairs, from the tragic plight of a young concubine to trying to forge an alliance with Britain to a war with Burma that is orchestrated by Britain. In the meantime, a subtle romance develops between them.
Actors
Anna LeonowensJodie Foster
King MongkutYun-Fat Chow
TuptimLing Bai
Also posted in 1999, Drama, High IMDB rating, History, Romance | Comments (0)

Rules of Engagement

IMDB Rating: 6.20
15046 votes

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Colonel Terry Childers is a 30 year career Marine. When he is ordered to go the American Embassy in Yemen, when it's learned that things there are starting to unravel. After evacuating the Ambassador and his family, Childers orders his men to fire at the crowd cause he believes that they are armed. Back in the U.S., certain officials fear that there'll be a backlash against other embassies and Americans, if Childers claim is proven to be true. So they have decided to make Childers a scapegoat. Childers asks Colonel Hayes Hodges, a man whom he knew and saved in Vietnam to defend him. And while there is no evidence or witness that can back Childers' claim, Hodges feels that he owes it to Childers to do what he can.
Actors
Col. Hayes 'Hodge' HodgesTommy Lee Jones
Col. Terry L. ChildersSamuel L. Jackson
Maj. Mark BiggsGuy Pearce
Also posted in 2000, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller, War | Comments (0)

Miracle at St. Anna

IMDB Rating: 5.60
2485 votes

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Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.
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2nd Staff Sergeant Aubrey StampsDerek Luke
Sergeant Bishop CummingsMichael Ealy
Corporal Hector NegronLaz Alonso
Also posted in 2008, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War | Comments (0)

The Verdict

IMDB Rating: 7.70
7879 votes

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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 for his clients, and to restore his standing as a lawyer.
Actors
Frank GalvinPaul Newman
Laura FischerCharlotte Rampling
Mickey MorrisseyJack Warden
Also posted in 1982, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Appaloosa

IMDB Rating: 7.10
2354 votes

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Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.
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Marshall Jack BellRobert Jauregui
Randall BraggJeremy Irons
VinceTimothy V. Murphy
Also posted in 2008, High IMDB rating, Western | Comments (0)

The Narrow Margin

IMDB Rating: 7.90
1569 votes

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When a mobsters wife decides to testify against his evil deeds she goes undercover to avoid being killed. Now that he's coming to trial she has to be escourted across country via train in order to testify. Cop Walter Brown and his partner are assigned the task, but the mob are on their trail.
Actors
Det. Sgt. Walter BrownCharles McGraw
Mrs. Frankie NeallMarie Windsor
Ann SinclairJacqueline White
Also posted in 1952, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)
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