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details
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: Apr 1, 1991
Running Time: 111 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
The story of two men as they enter law school, and how their contrasting codes of ethics leads them in different directions.
cast + crew
Director
2nd unit director
Peter Burton
Tim Garrity
Diana Stiles
Senator James B Stiles
Joan Stiles
Senator Steubens
John Lawry
Abernathy
John Palmeri
Todd
screenplay
Executive Producer
Producer
Producer
2nd unit producer
2nd unit assistant producer
reviews
April 18, 2001
John Cusack and James Spader prove their mettle as actors by investing this stupefyingly naive and predictable melodrama with genuine conviction. Both play law students at the University of Virginia. The script, by the usually astute Kevin Wade (Working Girl), helps the audience tell them apart by making Spader's Tim Garrity always virtuous and Cusack's Peter Burton always awful. Garrity becomes a prosecutor; Burton, natch, enters politics. Herbert Ross (Steel Magnolias) directs this high-gloss
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