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A father and a daughter, divided by a case, endangered by the truth.
A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain promotion, she must defend an auto manufacturer against charges that their explosion-prone station wagons are unsafe. As her mother begs for peace, Maggie takes on her dad in a trial that turns increasingly personal and nasty.Read moreLess
A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain promotion, she must defend an auto manufacturer against charges that their explosion-prone station wagons are unsafe. As her mother begs for peace, Maggie takes on her dad in a trial that turns increasingly personal and nasty.
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A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain promotion, she must defend an auto manufacturer against charges that their explosion-prone station wagons are unsafe. As her mother begs for peace, Maggie takes on her dad in a trial that turns increasingly personal and nasty.
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Gene HackmanJedediah Tucker Ward
Mary Elizabeth MastrantonioMaggie Ward
Colin FrielsMichael Grazier
Joanna MerlinEstelle Ward
Laurence FishburneNick Holbrook
Donald MoffatQuinn
Jan RubešPavel
Matt ClarkJudge Symes
Fred ThompsonDr. Getchell
Jonathan SilvermanBrian
Joan McMurtrey
Anne RamsayDeborahExplore the crew
- Director
- Michael Apted
- Writer
- Christopher Ames
- Writer
- Carolyn Shelby
- Producer
- Scott Kroopf
- Producer
- Robert W. Cort
- Producer
- Ted Field
- Writer
- Samantha Shad
- Original Music Composer
- James Horner
- Editor
- Ian Crafford
- Director of Photography
- Conrad Hall