Product Information
Lawyer Jedediah Ward, devoted to defending victims of large corporations and the State, is fighting for compensation for the victims of car accidents involving defective cars. The manufacturer is being defended by Ward's daughter.Product Identifiers
EAN5039036016919
eBay Product ID (ePID)30485253
Product Key Features
Film/TV TitleClass Action
ActorGene Hackman, Colin Friels, Joanna Merlin, Jan Rubes, Laurence Fishburne, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
DirectorMichael Apted
FormatDVD
Release Year2004
LanguageEnglish
FeaturesWidescreen
Aspect Ratio16:9 Wide Screen
Run Time105 Mins
GenreDrama, General
Additional Product Features
Certificate15
Number of Discs1
Additional InformationA father and daughter, both attorneys, are on opposite sides in the courtroom. He's on the prosecuting side and she's for the defence. As father and daughter they become divided, and as attorneys, endangered by the truth. Gene Hackman plays Jedediah Tucker Ward an esteemed trial attorney who has built his reputation defending the underdog against the huge, impenetrable corporate power structure. His lawyer daughter Maggie, (Mastrantonio) has more conventional aims--namely becoming a partner in San Francisco's largest corporate law firm. Jedediah believes that his daughter is selling out by working as a corporate attorney, but Maggie sees her father's defence of the "common man" as an excuse for self-aggrandisement on the job and negligence at home. The festering antagonism between the two comes to a head when they meet in the courtroom for a class action suit against an American car manufacturer, where Maggie represents the car company and Jedediah represents the people.
Movie/TV TitleClass Action