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1998 |
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PG-13 |
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112 minutes |
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Steven Zaillian |
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Rachel Pfeffer, Scott Rudin, Scott Rubin |
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Touchstone |
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John Travolta, James Gandolfini, John Lithgow, Robert Duvall, William H. Macy |
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A Civil Action Image Gallery, Wallpapers & Desktop Themes |
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Based on a true story.
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Jerome Facher: What's your take?
Jan Schlichtmann: They'll see the truth.
Jerome Facher: The truth? I thought we were talking about a court of law. Come on, you've been around long enough to know that a courtroom isn't a place to look for the truth.
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A Civil Action Reviews |
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rec.art.movies.reviews newsgroup |
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For those unfamiliar with the American legal system -- and count it among your blessings if you are one of them -- it is not generally the stuff of which great drama is made. It is a thing of motions, pleadings, depositions and causes of action, of hundreds of hours spent reading thousands of incoming documents, or redacting thousands of outgoing documents. It is a war of attrition played out in conference rooms, only rarely involving tense attorney-witness confrontations or even-more-tense waits for a verdict. Cinematic law is a satisfying fiction; real law is, for the most part, a laborious game of chicken before an out-of-court settlement.
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