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The Verdict (1982) 7.7
A lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling. Director:Sidney Lumet |
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Cast
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Judge Hoyle
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Kaitlin Costello
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Julie Bovasso | ... |
Maureen Rooney
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Sally Doneghy
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Kevin Doneghy
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Dr. Towler
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Dr. Thompson
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Lewis J. Stadlen | ... |
Dr. Gruber
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Kent Broadhurst | ... |
Joseph Alito
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Billy
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Frank Galvin is a down-on-his luck lawyer, reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing. Former associate Mickey Morrissey reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit that he himself served to Galvin on a silver platter: all parties willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, he suddenly realizes that perhaps after all the case should go to court: to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients, and to restore his standing as a lawyer. Written by Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
8 December 1982 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$54,000,000 (USA)Company Credits
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Will: "I'd get a pair of those half glasses like Paul Newman in The Verdict." See more »
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Trivia
After the verdict was announced in the film, director Sidney Lumet filmed two versions of the ending. In one version, the final shots we see are of Newman's character walking away from the courtroom in a series of long shots, never seeing what happens after he leaves the courthouse. In the version that was used, we see a sequence after he leaves the courthouse. See more »Goofs
The pinball machine Frank Galvin plays at the bar is named Disco Fever, and is an early electronic pinball, with digital sound and gas-discharge score displays. The sound effects however, are of mechanical bells and score reels made by an electro-mechanical pinball machine made before 1976. See more »Quotes
Kevin Doneghy: You guys... you guys are all the same! The doctors at the hospital, you... it's always what I'm going to do for you. And then you screw up, and it's, "Ah, we did the best that we could, I'm dreadfully sorry." And people like us live with your mistakes the rest of our lives.See more »
Connections
Referenced in Will & Grace: Grace in the Hole (2002)Will: "I'd get a pair of those half glasses like Paul Newman in The Verdict." See more »
I've always believed that actors are drawn to courtroom material because of the inherent conflict within them makes for good drama and good parts. They're quite a few of them in The Verdict.
This has always been my favorite Paul Newman film, it's the one he should have won the Oscar for. His Frank Galvin is not the noblest of creatures, he's a once promising attorney now an alcoholic ambulance chaser. But the skills are still there and he shows them battling tremendous odds. Thirty years earlier Frank Capra could easily have made this the subject of one of his populist dramas.
Newman gets great support from an outstanding cast. James Mason, Jack Warden, Charlotte Rampling, Joe Seneca deliver some outstanding performances. The one I particularly liked here was Milo O'Shea as the corrupt and biased judge.
Most of the great courtroom dramas have been about criminal cases. The Verdict was a landmark film that set the stage for the success of other great films about civil cases, including A Civil Action and Erin Brockovich. Those I don't think would have been made but for the critical and popular success of The Verdict.
Paul Newman was never better on screen.