A father and a daughter, divided by a case, endangered by the truth.
Director: Michael Apted
Starring: Gene Hackman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Colin Friels
Overview
A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain promotion, she must defend an auto manufacturer against charges that their explosion-prone station wagons are unsafe. As her mother begs for peace, Maggie takes on her dad in a trial that turns increasingly personal and nasty.
Director
Michael Apted
Production
Interscope Communications, 20th Century Fox
Cast
Gene Hackman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Colin Friels, Joanna Merlin, Laurence Fishburne, Donald Moffat, Jan Rubeš, Matt Clark, Fred Thompson, Jonathan Silverman, Joan McMurtrey, Anne Ramsay, David Byron, Tim Hopper, Robert David Hall, Ren Reynolds, Wood Moy, Victor Talmadge, Ken Grantham, Hajna O. Moss