After the horrific death of his wife and two sons, suicide seems to be the only escape for small town attorney Kent "Mac" McClain... until he's assigned a capital punishment case that begins to transform his life and those around him forever.
Das Urteil, O Julgamento, Robert Whitlow's The Trial, Процесът, The Trial - Das Urteil, El juicio, Процесс
USAPG-13
USA
this experience inspired me to make a new tag called “i let my mom pick the movie”
so. i feel like technically this deserves an insanely low rating because, honestly, it reminds me of a high school film project. the low budget shows and i could pick on almost every aspect of the movie (especially the score, oh geez). i held back laughs in places that were supposed to be dramatic. but, to tell you the truth, i’m tired of corporate standards of what makes a good movie that we’ve all come to believe. honestly, who cares about budget? even bad acting? i felt the heart of the movie was in the right place. i saw how my mom enjoyed it.…
It's a generic trial / mystery movie. Not terrible just feels bland. I'm giving this higher because It was great seeing Matthew Modine, Bob Gunton and the legendary Robert Forster on screen.
"When we entered the courtroom this morning, the time began ticking on an experience that none of us will ever forget." -Mac
The Trial is a film about a small town attorney who thinks suicide seems to be the only solution to the pain of losing his wife and sons from a horrific car accident. Before he could do the deed, an old friend calls him about a new case he's encouraged to work on.
They didn't focus enough time on Mac's suicidal thoughts and grief. We didn't get any build up or really saw how desperate he was for help, except for the first 2 minutes of the film.
This film seemed to want to focus on the topic…
the worst thing that can come out of watching a laughably bad movie is not being able to laugh because your mom is taking it all very seriously and doesn’t see what’s wrong
Courtroom movies are some of my all time favorites. This however, with the poor poor acting and weak plot was hard to watch. Kind of got the feeling I was watching a movie that a couple of high schoolers put together as part of a theatre class.
Why I watched this one? The DVD case made it look like it could be an interesting movie about lawyers and a murder case.
What is this one about? Matthew Modine plays a suicidal lawyer who gets placed as a public defender for murder suspect.
My thoughts on this one? This one covers almost all of the lawyer movie cliches. That being said....the trial scenes were actually pretty good....as the movie made it possible to believe the prosecution and the defense. Modine is fine in the lead role. The mystery of the movie is pretty predictable. Overall.....I would say this is a slightly better than average movie. 3.15 stars.
Okay film - a young man is accused of murdering his girlfriend. His fate is in the hands of a once successful attorney who cannot come back after an accident has killed his wife and two sons.
Routine and moves slowly.
this film just proved that we all probably have the same mother with the same questionable taste... but we love them so we accept and put a 2 star review
+ my mom said she'd smash the lawyer i think i should move out (I'd smash him too)
SO. FREAKING. BORING. Poor Robert Forester deserved better than to appear in this.
Everything about this movie fits safely in the "meh" category with the notable exception of the writing - which is just bad.
