Criminal Law Page #7

Synopsis: A rising young attorney successfully defends a man accused of murder, only to have the same type of murder then happen again. Right away the previously defended man hires the attorney again, and although the attorney is quite certain that he is the killer, he agrees to again defend him... much to the consternation of his friends. However, he explains that by being his attorney he will be better able to catch the man in a mistake... and on this the rest of the film develops, with the killer playing a cat and mouse game with the attorney until, at last, they both must recognize that they are not all that different.
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Director(s): Martin Campbell
Production: HBO Video
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
33%
R
Year:
1988
117 min
558 Views


if you don't save your own soul?

You think I should be stopped,

just as I know my mother had to be stopped.

But I acted on my belief.

Can you?

Can you?

What if I was to tell you that I'm going

to put up a sham insanity defense,

so I can be free again in a few years?

Would that make you see that

you must judge for yourself?

What if I gave you the gun?

What if I asked you what the punishment

should be for attacking Ellen?

I would have raped her.

I would have killed her.

I would have burned her.

What is your judgment?

Show me what I've taught you, Ben.

Save yourself.

Save me.

Poor Ben.

Drop it!

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Mark Kasdan

Mark Kasdan is an American screenwriter and film producer known for such films as Criminal Law, Silverado and Dreamcatcher. more…

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