What's your list? Here's my top five.
1. My Cousin Vinny. This may be a stretch to some, but it was really well done, and actually extremely true to criminal law and procedure.
2. A Time to Kill. The closing argument alone makes this worthy.
3. To Kill a Mockingbird. I know, I know. Should be number 1. I haven't seen it in a couple of years, but I will watch it again and reevaluate. I think it is outstanding, but I think two more recent movies have surpassed it.
4. The Verdict. I confess, I love Paul Newman in a man crush type way. I'm not sure that anything he's ever done has it been outstanding.
5. Presumed Innocent. This one probably doesn't have the publicity some of the others had, but is really really good.
5 Honorable mention ( not necessarily my number 6 through 10, but just five more I wanted to mention).
A Paper Chase. As a former law school student, this one holds special significance to me. I almost put it in the top five, but that really wouldn't be fair.
The Pelican Brief. Not even close to being on the list, but so much this revolved around my law school that I recognized it just resonates specially with me. We'll be on nobody else's list, however.
A Few Good Men. How can I pass up you can't handle the truth? I don't know, but too much of the movie was just entertaining and not classic to me. Great movie, just not worthy of top five.
Philadelphia. Denzel Washington and Tom Hanks were tremendous.
12 Angry Men. Probably should be higher. Saw the traveling Broadway play once and it may have been even better than the movie.
Too many others to list, including some that will make the top two or three of most national list. Let's hear yours.
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