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Criminal Law

1989 · 114 min

Drama, Thriller

Ben Chase is an on-the-rise Boston attorney currently defending a wealthy client in a high-profile murder case. Martin Thiel is the wealthy young man on trial for a particularly brutal murder. The verdict sets Thiel free. Within 24 hours another grizzly and all-too-familiar murder has taken place with striking similarities to the first crime. Chase inexplicably agrees to act as his defense attorney; but this time it will be to gather evidence that will put away his client for good.

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Appeals to viewers who enjoy morally complicated legal thrillers where professional ethics, personal obsession, and dangerous proximity to a suspected killer drive the suspense.

Tone
tense, bleak, cerebral
Payoff
unease, vindication
Pacing
steady
Intensity
intense
Structure
linear
Themes
justice, moral compromise, obsession, violent crime
Setting
late twentieth-century, affluent urban law offices and crime scenes

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