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17 February 1995 (USA)
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Buried deep in the Florida Everglades is a secret that can save an innocent man or let a killer kill again.
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Bobby Earl is facing the electric chair for the murder of a young girl. Eight years after the crime he calls in Paul Armstrong...
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Weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Chopping List 11/03/2009
(From Fangoria. 31 October 2009, 9:00 PM, PDT)
'Just Cause' video game set for big-screen debut
(From screeninglog. 10 August 2009, 5:21 PM, PDT)
(From Fangoria. 31 October 2009, 9:00 PM, PDT)
'Just Cause' video game set for big-screen debut
(From screeninglog. 10 August 2009, 5:21 PM, PDT)
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A Conservative Is A Liberal Who's Been Mugged
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Sean Connery | ... | Paul Armstrong |
 | Laurence Fishburne | ... | Sheriff Tanny Brown |
 | Kate Capshaw | ... | Laurie Prentiss Armstrong |
 | Blair Underwood | ... | Bobby Earl |
 | Ed Harris | ... | Blair Sullivan |
 | Christopher Murray | ... | Detective T.J. Wilcox |
 | Ruby Dee | ... | Evangeline |
 | Scarlett Johansson | ... | Katie Armstrong |
| Daniel J. Travanti | ... | Warden |
 | Ned Beatty | ... | McNair |
 | Liz Torres | ... | Delores Rodriguez |
| Lynne Thigpen | ... | Ida Conklin |
| Taral Hicks | ... | Lena Brown |
 | Victor Slezak | ... | Sgt. Rogers |
| Kevin McCarthy | ... | Phil Prentiss |
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102 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Australia:MA |
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Singapore:NC-16 |
South Korea:15 |
Philippines:R-18 |
Finland:K-16 |
France:U |
Germany:16 (w) |
Portugal:M/16 |
Spain:18 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:18 |
USA:R
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Hope Lange's final theatrical film.
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Continuity: During the chase scene as they approach the draw-bridge, both sides of the bridge are raised to 45 degrees. Seconds later, when the car jumps the bridge, the far side is down again.
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McNair:
[McNair was Bobby Earl's inefficient defence attorney] Regardless of what you may think of me, I did defend that boy to the very best of my abilities. And, boy, has it cost me. Hell, I lost half of my business from defending that son-of-a-bitch. And he got the chair. You have any idea what my life would be like if I had gotten him acquitted?
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Referenced in The Tracey Fragments (2007)
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Amazing Grace
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Just Cause takes some of the best parts of three films, Cape Fear, A Touch of Evil and Silence of the Lambs and mixes it together to come up with a good thriller of a film.
Sean Connery is a liberal law professor, married to a former Assistant District Attorney, Kate Capshaw and he's a crusader against capital punishment. Blair Underwood's grandmother Ruby Dee buttonholes Connery at a conference and persuades him to handle her grandson's appeal. He's sitting on death row for the murder of a young girl.
When Connery arrives in this rural Florida county he's up against a tough sheriff played by Laurence Fishburne who's about as ruthless in his crime solving as Orson Welles was in Touch of Evil.
Later on after Connery gets the verdict set aside with evidence he's uncovered, he's feeling pretty good about himself. At that point the film takes a decided turn from Touch of Evil to Cape Fear.
To say that all is not what it seems is to put it mildly. The cast uniformly turns in some good performances. Special mention must be made of Ed Harris who plays a Hannibal Lecter like serial killer on death row with Underwood. He will make your skin crawl and he starts making Connery rethink some of those comfortable liberal premises he's been basing his convictions on. Many a confirmed liberal I've known has come out thinking quite differently once they've become a crime victim.
Of course the reverse is equally true. Many a law and order conservative if they ever get involved on the wrong end of the criminal justice system wants to make real sure all his rights are indeed guaranteed.
Criminal justice is not an end, but a process and a never ending one at that for all society. I guess if Just Cause has a moral that would probably be it.