Sentences with phrase «courtroom drama film»

A great courtroom drama film and a terrific performance by the incomparable Meryl, who had to play not only an Australian accent but also with a hint of A New Zealand accent reflecting the background of Lindy Chamberlain.

Not exact matches

But then the film might not have been made at all; the reassuring rhythms of the courtroom drama, I imagine, are what made this material palatable to the executives in charge of signing the checks.

Maybe this whole film would have looked better as a conventional courtroom drama.

Instead, we get a middlin» courtroom drama that lacks the intensity of such films as the 1982 Sidney Lumet / Paul Newman film, The Verdict.

A courtroom drama, a murder mystery, and a horror film.

A tpical Stanley Kramer's film: Serious (even pompous) and humanist, but essentially middlebrow, courtroom drama that while well - acted is too verbose and fearful of taking sides in the controversy over who's to blame for the Nazi atrocities.

A solid piece of storytelling that doesn't pander, skips the usual POW stereotypes and allows the film to work reasonably well as an epic of war, a survival story, a prison thriller, a murder mystery and a courtroom drama.

Filmed in New Orleans and based on John Grisham's book, the courtroom drama stars Hackman as a ruthless jury consultant for the gun lobby.

His first six films included two horrors, a period drama, a thriller, a courtroom drama, and a crime noir.

After flirting with genre in courtroom drama The Third Murder, which bowed at Venice last year, Japan's Hirokazu Kore - eda — a regular face at Cannes since the early 2000s — made a return to familiar ground, not to mention a quick turnaround, with his new film Shoplifters.

Directed by Duccio Tessari (Death Occurred Last Night, A Pistol for Ringo), The Bloodstained Butterfly melds the lurid giallo traditions popularized by Dario Argento and Mario Bava with courtroom drama, resulting in a film that is as concerned with forensic detail and legal process as it is with grisly murders and audacious set - pieces.

It may not be Wright's best film (that honor likely goes to Atonement) nor is it his most exciting (I'm a huge Hannah stan personally) and it's very far from his lower - tier material (The Soloist, Pan) but Darkest Hour sees the English auteur flexing his muscles in new and exciting ways, turning historical nonfiction into a calculated character study, an intoxicating courtroom drama and an electrifying thriller in its own right.

Only four years after the disastrous 1492: Conquest of Paradise (a film that would have destroyed a lesser director's career), Ridley Scott was back in nautical territory with White Squall, a semi-successful, fact - based survival / courtroom drama that featured a sizable collection of up - and - coming actors, including Scott Wolf, Ryan Phillippe, Jeremy Sisto, Eric Michael Cole, Balthazar Getty, and Ethan Embry (among others), and a creditable turn by Jeff Bridges as the ill - fated leader of a sailing trip threatened by the «white squall» (a sudden, violent windstorm) of the title.

The British actress will soon be seen in the Wachowski's sci - fi movie «Jupiter Ascending» and the Keanu Reeves courtroom drama «The Whole Truth,» and she's currently filming Sony's Untitled NFL Concussion Drama with Will Sdrama «The Whole Truth,» and she's currently filming Sony's Untitled NFL Concussion Drama with Will SDrama with Will Smith.

Courtney Hunt prepares at courtroom drama for her second feature film, can it find similar success at Oscars like «Frozen River» did?

Anatomy Of A Murder — Otto Preminger's film is one of the greatest of all courtroom dramas.

The film's bizarre structure, starting with tons of exposition and character development, and spiraling into a courtroom drama magically works through Leigh's even - keeled touch.

Directed by Duccio Tessari (Death Occurred Last Night, A Pistol for Ringo), The Bloodstained Butterfly melds the lurid giallo traditions popularised by Dario Argento and Mario Bava with courtroom drama, resulting in a film that is as concerned with forensic detail and legal process as it is with grisly murders and audacious set - pieces.

Courtroom drama takes center stage in the classic films, 12 Angry Men and To Kill a Mockingbird.

; RED DUST, the TRC courtroom drama starring Hilary Swank; the stylish Cape Flats gangster film, DOLLARS AND WHITE PIPES; the record - breaking box office performers MAMA JACK and MR. BONES, starring South Africa's number one box office star, Leon Schuster; THE LONG RUN starring Armin Muehler - Stahl (SHINE); THE THEORY OF FLIGHT starring Academy Award ® winning Kenneth Branagh and Helena Bonham Carter; BRAVO TWO ZERO, (as co-producer), a BBC co-production starring Sean Bean, based on Andy McNab's best - selling book of the same title.

Despite outward appearances, Fracture isn't quite the fast - paced legal thriller that one might have expected from the film's promotional materials (there is, in fact, only one courtroom sequence of any real significance); screenwriters Daniel Pyne and Glenn Gers have instead crafted a story that generally has the feel of a low - key drama - with Gosling's character ultimately forced to choose between his ambition and his morals.

One of the best and most true - to - life of all courtroom dramas, «Anatomy of a Murder» is also the best film producer - director Otto Preminger ever made.

Although much of the film takes place within the confines of Ramon's room, there are moments where the drama does shift to other parts of the house, and later, into the courtrooms.

So with Jackson returning to the director's chair for his first film in well over a decade, Denial does have the makings of a conventional courtroom drama that feels a little dated — and yet is one saved by the sheer pertinence of the themes being explored.

From there, the film morphs from courtroom drama to espionage thriller as Donovan finds himself flying to Berlin in order to secretly negotiate a prisoner exchange with the Russians: they'll get Abel, and the US will receive recently downed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers in return.

Cole Hauser turns in an excellent performance as the requisite camp «getter» and catalyst for the courtroom drama that comprises the bulk of the film.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Any Day Now (Unrated) Courtroom drama, set in the Seventies, about the custody battle waged between the state and a gay couple (Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt) trying to adopt a boy with Down syndrome (Isaac Leyva) abandoned by his mother.

The film combines elements of crime drama, prison drama, and courtroom drama, without any one of them overwhelming the others.

Paths Of Glory — One of my favorite, and one of the least misanthropist, of all of Stanley Kubrick's films is this courtroom drama in which Kirk Douglas tries to save three men from being executed for cowardice in the wake of a disastrous and idiotic offensive during World War I. Kubrick directs in a crisp, deep focus black and white, and his depiction of the battle, a long tracking shot of the horrors of trench warfare, is one of the most powerful scenes he ever shot.

Like his films, which range from courtroom dramas to war and espionage thrillers to unconventional romances and more, Hanks covers a wide spectrum in his debut collection of short stories in a host of styles, situations and settings.

Like his films, which range from courtroom dramas to war and espionage thrillers to unconventional romances and more, Hanks covers a wide spectrum in his debut collection of short stories in a host of... [Read more...]