A 1982 film by Sidney Lumet about an alcoholic attorney who finds unexpected moral purpose in a medical malpractice case against the Boston Catholic archdiocese.
Demonstrated that legal proceduralism can be the vehicle for profound personal redemption, and that institutional power (the Church, the medical establishment, the legal system) routinely suppresses truth to protect itself.
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