Rewatched this last night after king Tracy Letts drafted it in the Big Pitcure podcast 1982 draft. It's so damn good with an all-timer performance from Newman. He's in the midst of a crisis of purpose, but even when he's trying to help the working class he makes mistakes that cause his clients pain. Everyone who isn't a doctor or a lawyer or a Cardinal in this movie lumps them all into one elite class of assholes and they're not wrong. It's so well acted from everyone, including James Mason as the defending attorney. I swear you can see him start to sweat during the climactic testimony. That's fucking acting right there.
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