Legal Movies

[Aficionado]

Name some great Law oriented movies. I need them for my Law Independent Study, and so far I've only thought of A Passage to India and Gandhi: The Movie. Any suggestions? There HAS to be an important scene with a trial which incorporates law terminology.

[willfellmarsy]

A Few Good Men
Liar Liar

[mocha bear]

Legally Blonde

[guitrguy]

Rainmaker.

[Pop music sucks]

The Exorcism of Emily Rose!

[guitrguy]

That one John Grisham Movie about the kids who witnessed a murder.

[benfan]

Cop Land. Just for the Stallone factor.

[niobium]

pelican brief
primal fear

[tom79]

12 Angry Men
My Cousin Vinny

[the2stranger]

Fracture.
Such a cool movie, Anthony Hopkins is such a badass, even when he's not playing Hannibal.

[willfellmarsy]

Big Daddy

[niobium]

the trial (1962)
to kill a mockingbird

[-Listy-]

Demolition man

i mean its like how has law changed in the future..and how is Stallone going to deal with it.

[fingers mccoy]

yeh yeh man and the sequel judge dredd

[Kage]

the trial (1962)

Right here. The only law-oriented movie everyone needs to watch.

[Aficionado]

Good picks here, thanks for the suggestions. I think I'll rent a select few of these and watch them for pleasure and based on my own judgment pick one for the actual assignment.

[niobium]

orson welles is the man

he is sexy and has a great voice

[Gnarmageddon]

A Time to Kill!

"Yes, they deserved to die, and I HOPE THEY BURN IN HELL!"

[Against Miik!]

OMG no joke I was going to make this exact same thread sometime this week. I have to write a paper on a movie that involves a trial. I wanted to do A Few Good Men, but it can't be a military trial since those are conducted differently.

[thedeadwalk!]

A Civil Action
Find Me Guilty
Anatomy of a Murder
Witness for the Prosecution
My Cousin Vinny (come on!)
Monster
The Firm?
Runaway Jury?
Double Jeopardy? (that one's kind of a laugh)
Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8

And I really can't vehemently disagree more with The Trial as a law movie. It's just not...

[Iscariot]

12 Angry Men

yeah this one is good we watched this in political studies back in high school

also the rainmaker is good but the book pwns the movie

[Interstate]

Fracture.
Such a cool movie, Anthony Hopkins is such a badass, even when he's not playing Hannibal.

This.

Anthony Hopkins is amazing in this.

[Der Übermensch]

12 Angry Men
Witness for the Prosecution (Best Legal movie imo)
Anatomy of a Murder
Michael Clayton (No real court scene, just dispositions)

[Iscariot]

Michael Clayton (No real court scene, just dispositions)

depositions*

:p

[Majesty]

oh hey jared, Id totally rep you back (and rail you, seeing as you're clark kent) but I cant, cause I rep you like 24/7


kay so anyway, Michael Clayton was amazing


what is 88 minutes considered?

[Iscariot]

oh hey jared, Id totally rep you back (and rail you, seeing as you're clark kent) but I cant, cause I rep you like 24/7

lol it's ok i was actually returning your last rep

besides you can make it up to me just come over later tonight and i'll put on a suit and some thick rimmed glasses and show you my super stamina

[Majesty]

no no, you have to look like tom welling, duhh.

[Iscariot]

ok ok i'll go get plastic surgery and buy a blue shirt and red jacket brb

[Majesty]

oh yeah, law related movies... urrrm...

jerry mcguire?

isnt he like a lawyer or something?



ohhhh to kill a mockingbird

[Volumnius Flush]

don't forget inherit the wind

based on a mock trial though

[Der Übermensch]

what is 88 minutes considered?

It's considered **** from what I heard :p


don't forget inherit the wind

based on a mock trial though
The Monkey Trial was a real trial. The movie is just very very very inaccurate because it is more a condemnation of McCarthyism then anything to do with the real Scopes trial.