Jerry (Tommy Lee Jones) runs a number of funeral homes in South Mississippi, but is in debt and agrees to sell a number of them to the giant Loewen funeral company, headed by sneering filthy rich CEO Bill Camp. When Loewen fails to fulfill its end of the bargain, Jerry sues and hires exuberant lawyer Jamie Foxx.
Fun Hollywood razzamatazz featuring an apparently heavily dramatised and rather familiar true story of the little man taking on the evil giant that is Corporate America. It pretty much goes in the direction that you think it will, pressing home a few points on racist America along the way. What makes this watchable though is the cast with Foxx on fire shouting and gesticulating at the jury through a ton of gold jewellery, Lee Jones considerably less angry, fast talking and cynical than his usual role and Camp, a nice baddy doing his own little bit of 'Colonel Nathan Jessop' towards the end of the trial. It's quite good fun with jolly turns by the 2 leads although I'll be honest, whilst the Loewen Company are lousy through and through, not sure I understand what law they've broken here - anyway, that's neither here nor there.
Fun Hollywood razzamatazz featuring an apparently heavily dramatised and rather familiar true story of the little man taking on the evil giant that is Corporate America. It pretty much goes in the direction that you think it will, pressing home a few points on racist America along the way. What makes this watchable though is the cast with Foxx on fire shouting and gesticulating at the jury through a ton of gold jewellery, Lee Jones considerably less angry, fast talking and cynical than his usual role and Camp, a nice baddy doing his own little bit of 'Colonel Nathan Jessop' towards the end of the trial. It's quite good fun with jolly turns by the 2 leads although I'll be honest, whilst the Loewen Company are lousy through and through, not sure I understand what law they've broken here - anyway, that's neither here nor there.