Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep fight over custody of a mop-topped little kid who is going to need so much therapy after this.
Category Archives: Courtroom drama
THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA (1937)
A very old-fashioned biopic (sort of) about a French writer and his fight to save an army officer wrongly accused of treason. I found myself drawn in despite myself.
12 ANGRY MEN (1957)
Perhaps the greatest of all “talky dramas,” beloved despite (or because of?) taking place almost entirely in one room.
Movie Valhalla 