Criminal Law Page #3

Synopsis: A rising young attorney successfully defends a man accused of murder, only to have the same type of murder then happen again. Right away the previously defended man hires the attorney again, and although the attorney is quite certain that he is the killer, he agrees to again defend him... much to the consternation of his friends. However, he explains that by being his attorney he will be better able to catch the man in a mistake... and on this the rest of the film develops, with the killer playing a cat and mouse game with the attorney until, at last, they both must recognize that they are not all that different.
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Director(s): Martin Campbell
Production: HBO Video
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
33%
R
Year:
1988
117 min
504 Views


I've learned a lot from your cases.

It shows.

I've got too many cases.

Challenging, precedent

setting, important cases.

When you get tired of being

a big frog in a little pond,

you give me a call.

Right.

Telephone.

Yup.

Ben, I need you.

What do you mean?

I thought about you last week

when the news reports mentioned the diaper.

Martin, what do you want?

I want to retain you.

I think I'm about to continue

my education in criminal law.

You mean you're under investigation

in that Westfield case?

No. Not yet.

Meet me in the park at River Point

at 11:
00 at the picnic area.

Tonight? Are you nuts? It's pouring.

This can't wait.

Sh*t.

Sh*t.

Martin!

Martin!

Martin!

Anybody home! Hello! Hello,

please, I have to talk to you.

Who is it?

I have to use your phone.

Please, this, this is an emergency.

What emergency?

I just... There's a woman

been murdered!

She's been murdered in the park.

Please. Please... No!

Shut up.

I have to use your phone.

Just get the phone.

Just a second. There's one right here.

Dial 911.

Let me do that.

Tell them it's a woman.

She's been murdered.

Where?

Where?

In the park.

She's a Caucasian.

In her early 20s.

Very long black hair.

Or dark, anyway.

Janet.

Miss Falkner said the victim

left for the night shift

at her usual time.

10:
15, 10:20.

She left her car in the usual place.

Now, you pulled up here

about 10:
55.

That's about 40 minutes later.

And we need to fill in that time.

Now, what about the man walking his dog?

Running. Running with

his dog. That's all.

Was the man black or white?

White, I think.

You think?

It was dark.

Raining, you know.

How the hell should I know.

Was he tall or short?

I... I didn't notice.

Well, he probably lives around here.

What's his dog look like?

I mean, roughly.

I don't know.

Like a German Shepherd,

or more like a poodle?

For Christ's sake!

It was a peeing dog!

I don't know.

Stake out the lamppost!

I've done worse, Chase.

You any better on cars?

Any parked near here when you arrived?

There... there were two

over there.

The VW was there, right? Yeah.

What'd the other one look like?

Bigger, darker.

That's it? Bigger. Darker.

Well, that's great.

Do you know when they left?

I wasn't looking.

I was thinking about that girl.

Yeah.

Let's go over there.

The girl's gone.

Get over here, will you?

We need somebody

who can drive the goddamn thing.

Last week, I heard about a

woman murdered in Westfield.

She was also gagged with a diaper.

The report said mutilated.

Was she burned?

Why?

This is madness.

But there was some method, maybe.

The burning obliterated any

pubic hairs, traces of semen.

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Mark Kasdan

Mark Kasdan is an American screenwriter and film producer known for such films as Criminal Law, Silverado and Dreamcatcher. more…

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