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List Price: $9.95 Our Price: $9.95 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Full Screen • NTSC In Theaters : 1979 DVD Release : 16 January, 2001 |
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...And Justice For All description Al Pacino plays a Maryland lawyer who takes on a judicial system rife with dealmaking in this awkward blend of satire and sentimentality. Topical director Norman Jewison can't seem to help Pacino get comfortable with the mismatched material, which pushes the film into outrageousness at some turns and mawkishness at others. The script by Barry Levinson and Valerie Curtin is more an accumulation of random ideas and moments than a congruent story. However, it's interesting to see the large cast of good actors, most of whom hadn't become well known yet. (Christine Lahti made her film debut here.) Pacino gets to work for a second time (following The Godfather II) with acting mentor Lee Strasberg. --Tom Keogh |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Pacino shines |
| I first saw this film on TV several decades ago and hadn't seen it for a long time. Would it have the same impact that it had 20 years ago? Have my views changed in that time? Well having seen it again today, the answer is a resounding yes and no respectively.
Its certainly an oddball film, mixing the laugh out-loud with moments that will leave you knotted up with anger and frustration. Jack Warden plays the suicidal Judge Rayford, and John Forsythe is Judge Fleming who is accused of raping and assaulting a young woman. Al Pacino is Arthur Kirkland an idealistic lawyer who ends up defending Judge Fleming. There are a few contrived moments, but stick with it as the ending is worth waiting for, when Al Pacino gives his opening statement to the Jury. When this film was made in the late 1970's Al Pacino was at his very best, and the movie star Pacino had not yet taken over. His performance throughout the film is marvellous. It isn't a masterpiece by any means, but its a lot better than most films being made today. See it if only for Pacino's performance. |
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