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American Tragedy (2000): Dir. Lawrence Schiller
Feat. Ving Rhames, Ron Silver, Christopher Plummer; Heavyweight TV movie of the OJ Simpson trial, with Ving Rhames and Ron Silver and Christopher Plummer suiting up to defend the former football star…
Dirty Pictures (2000): Dir. Frank Pierson
Feat. James Woods, Craig T. Nelson; Based on the true–story of how the Chicago Arts Centre was prosecuted in 1990 for obscenity over an exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe's…
Tichborne Claimant, The (1997): Dir. David Yates
Feat. Stephen Fry; Based on a real–life 19th century mystery concerning the fabulously wealthy Sir Roger Tichborne, who disappeared in the South Pacific in 1866.…
Crime of the Century (1996): Dir. Mark Rydell
Feat. Stephen Rea, Isabella Rossellini, J.T. Walsh…; Astute re–enactment of the controversial Lindbergh trial that resulted in a supposed wrongful execution for the kidnap and murder of a baby in…
Ghosts of Mississippi (1996): Dir. Rob Reiner
Feat. Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, James Woods…; Thirty years after the fact, D.A. Alec Baldwin re–investigates the murder of a Mississippi civil rights leader. Fact–based…
Jaded (1996): Dir. Caryn Krooth
Feat. Carla Gugino, Rya Kihlstedt, Christopher McDonald…; Putting a hefty, controversial twist on the subject of rape, this psychodrama has smalltown loner Carla Gugino sexually abused, not by a man, but by…
Advocate, The (Hour Of the Pig) (1993): Dir. Leslie Megahey
Feat. Colin Firth, Donald Pleasence, Nicol Williamson…; Polished, wry and most unusual medieval fact–based tale. Colin Firth plays a lawyer summonsed to act for the defence a pig (yes, an animal) for…
Citizen Cohn (1992): Dir. Frank Pierson
Feat. James Woods; James Woods plays Joseph McCarthy's crooked lawyer, Roy Cohn – a role meaty enough to sustain every ounce of his frustrated energy. The…
Trial, The (1992): Dir. David Jones
Feat. Kyle MacLachlan, Anthony Hopkins, Jason Robards Jr.…; Update of Kafka's disturbing, influential novel posits Kyle MacLachlan as the man mysteriously arrested and subjected to a totalitarian judiciary.…
Paris Trout (1991): Dir. Stephen Gyllenhaal
Feat. Dennis Hopper, Barbara Hershey; In 1949, crazed hick Dennis Hopper manifests his full–blooded rascism when he murders the young sister of a negro who has renegged on his car…

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