Sentences with phrase «small town judge»

But the already - strained family dynamics are stretched to new limits when his estranged father (a small town judge played by Robert Duvall) is slapped with a murder charge, and Downey's character jumps in to defend him.

Judge Priest is a turn - of - the - century small town judge, a drinker, and a Confederate.

Not exact matches

Even before Heinz bought Kraft, the small - town ways of Oscar Mayer were changing, says Mike Judge, former head of consumer insights and strategy there and now Director of the Center for Brand and Product Management Center at the University of Wisconsin Business School.

Inside, a woman who identified herself as an editor of a small - town newspaper and a contest judge, enclosed a brief but complimentary note.

«We're not asking for new programs, more facilities or new cars — these are basic expenses like rent,» said Robert H. Tembeckjian, the administrator and counsel for the commission, which oversees some 3,500 judges statewide, from small - town courts to the upper reaches of the judiciary.

With his hatchet face, bad teeth, and rolling - toned voice, Middleton was ideally cast as stern judges, cruel orphanage officials, backwater sheriffs, and small town bigots.

Premise: A lawyer struggles to save his estranged father, a small - town judge, who has been charged with murder.

The local judge (Graf, The Brady Bunch Movie) in the small town is so fed up with seeing her face, and the fact that she has had four children already (all of which had to be given up for adoption due to their mother's behavior), that when he discovers she is pregnant again decides to make law history and have her put in prison for endangering the life of her fetus, making it clear he would be a bit more lenient with her if she were to have it aborted.

Hank, unable to leave his unappreciative father in the inept care of the small town defense lawyer C.P. Kennedy (Dax Shepard), stays on to defend Judge Palmer.

Robert Duvall and Robert Downey Jr. share the screen for the first time as father and son in «The Judge,» a riveting story of two men — Joseph Palmer (Duvall), a powerhouse judge in a small Indiana town, and his estrangJudge,» a riveting story of two men — Joseph Palmer (Duvall), a powerhouse judge in a small Indiana town, and his estrangjudge in a small Indiana town, and his estranged...

Robert Duvall and Robert Downey Jr. share the screen for the first time as father and son in «The Judge,» a riveting story of two men — Joseph Palmer (Duvall), a powerhouse judge in a small Indiana town, and his estranged son, Hank Palmer (Downey), a big city defense attoJudge,» a riveting story of two men — Joseph Palmer (Duvall), a powerhouse judge in a small Indiana town, and his estranged son, Hank Palmer (Downey), a big city defense attojudge in a small Indiana town, and his estranged son, Hank Palmer (Downey), a big city defense attorney.

Whereas Grisham's southern potboilers are driven by plot, suspense, and applications of the law, The Judge, an original screenplay attributed to director David Dobkin, Gran Torino's Nick Schenk, and newcomer Bill Dubuque, substitutes small - town sentimentality for those elements.

There are elements to The Judge to make it a worthwhile watch but they're buried within a jello - mold of quizzical small - town whimsy that gives the whole thing an air of fluffy narrative negligence.

THE JUDGE has high - minded goals beyond making itself Oscar ™ - bait, but issues of justice, rule of law, and the simple joys of small - town life don't stand a chance against writing that relentlessly panders to Academy ™ voters, particularly when they run smack up against a courtroom scene that is deliberately staged to look like something out of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, a film we are put in mind of when Hank mentions Atticus Finch.

I think in a small town, people know your family and tend to judge you by them.

The book's central character, Jemubhai Patel, is a retired judge, who lives with his teenage granddaughter, Sai, in Kalimpong, a small town near the Himalayas.

When Henning was barely two years old his father, Ivar Mankell, was offered to serve as a court judge in a small town in the north of Sweden called Sveg.

Actress Andie MacDowell, whose first hit was Steven Soderbergh's Sex, Lies and Videotape, transitions to the heartwarming, as Judge Olivia Lockhart in the upcoming Hallmark series, Debbie Macomber's Cedar Cove, based on the series of best sellers set in a small town in Washington state.

 To make things even more Christmassy, the judges explored the town in golf carts that were brightly adorned with decorations, giving extra excitement to all the children who watched the small parade go by.

Few American flea markets can measure up to Canton in terms of history: residents of this small town an hour east of Dallas have been hauling their goods here to trade since 1850, when everything from hunting dogs to hand tools was bartered outside the courthouse during the circuit judge's monthly visit.

While we delight in the stories from the federal judges, the tales from the state court judges have a more small town, homespun feel.

For small town attorneys, it is possible to get to know a local judge quite well.

While thousands of golf enthusiasts flock every year to the sport's Scottish spiritual home, St. Andrews, tort litigators are more interested in a small town about 150 kilometres west of there that a retired British Columbia judge has dubbed the «birthplace of the modern law of negligence.»