The Whole Truth Page #2

Synopsis: Defense attorney Richard Ramsay takes on a personal case when he swears to his widowed friend, Loretta Lassiter, that he will keep her son Mike out of prison. Charged with murdering his father, Mike initially confesses to the crime. But as the trial proceeds, chilling evidence about the kind of man that Boone Lassiter really was comes to light. While Ramsay uses the evidence to get his client acquitted, his new colleague Janelle tries to dig deeper - and begins to realize that the whole truth is something she alone can uncover.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Courtney Hunt
Production: PalmStar Media
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
46
Rotten Tomatoes:
29%
R
Year:
2016
93 min
Website
1,201 Views


Your honor.

Do you have a proffer of

evidence on this, Mr. Ramsey?

- Your honor...

- Do you or do you not

have evidence for this court?

Not at this time.

You're fishing.

I'll allow it.

Now, step back.

You may answer the question.

It would be against the law

to omit passengers

from the manifest, so, no,

of course they never did that.

No further questions.

You picked up Mr.

Lassiter and his son

at the lakefront airport.

That's correct,

around 4:
00.

And the next

morning, 7:
00 A.M.,

you drove

Mr. Lassiter again.

That's correct,

straight to the airport.

Was there anything unusual?

No, nothing at all.

When he

returned, two days later,

on the evening of the murder,

you again dropped

him at his home.

That's correct.

Did you

notice anything unusual?

No, nothing.

Anything or anyone

out of the ordinary?

No one.

Thank you.

Nothing further, your honor.

Did you ever pick up women for Mr.

Lassiter...

Objection, your honor.

Withdrawn.

Sit down,

Mr. Ramsey.

You're excused.

This is what losing looks like,

but it's the best I can do

until you start talking to me.

Boone f***ed

everything that walked.

It didn't relate to the case,

but it made Boone look bad.

I figured Loretta knew and didn't

care as long as it helped Mike.

Mr. Ramsey,

I'm Janelle Brady.

You're too late.

No, I'm not.

I wasn't...

Just as we feared.

Juror number three.

Gave you the stink eye

after you crossed?

Yeah, I caught it.

Janelle Brady, Jack Legrand.

Janelle is

Walter Brady's daughter.

I asked him to sit second chair

for me, but he couldn't.

He recommended Janelle.

Her dad is also famous

for being late,

but never to court.

Are you kidding me?

Concerned women for America?

Don't even ask.

I was sitting in

the back the whole time.

You missed jury selection.

I know, I'm sorry.

I tried calling.

I'm on trial. I don't answer

my phone when I'm on trial.

Well...

We still got two blacks, two single

moms, and an unemployed white kid.

Sh*t.

That ain't no guarantee.

- Call you this afternoon.

- Keep on it.

You want a job or not?

Ramsey.

Five minutes.

Okay.

Legrand's your jury consultant?

Ran out of challenges,

and got stuck with

juror number three...

Heiress to oil money

with nothing to do

but worry about people

stealing from her.

She's the kind that thinks

the death penalty

isn't severe enough.

So besides being

Walter Brady's daughter,

tell me who you are.

I graduated Vanderbilt '07,

Columbia for law.

Won all my mock trials,

then came back home

to work at Morris and Duprey,

but the corporate grind wasn't

my thing, so I took a year off.

To do what?

Regroup.

In river oaks?

Thanks, dad.

They put you on meds?

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Nicholas Kazan

Nicholas Kazan (born September 15, 1945) is an American screenwriter, film producer and director. more…

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