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Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore

  • TV Movie
  • 1992
  • PG
  • 2h
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
255
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Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (1992)
Drama

In the second dramatic case for lawyer Harmon Cobb, he defends an incarcerated woman who is refused release from a mental institution.In the second dramatic case for lawyer Harmon Cobb, he defends an incarcerated woman who is refused release from a mental institution.In the second dramatic case for lawyer Harmon Cobb, he defends an incarcerated woman who is refused release from a mental institution.

  • Director
    • Delbert Mann
  • Writers
    • Michael Norell
    • James Norell
  • Stars
    • Walter Matthau
    • Harry Morgan
    • Susan Blakely
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.7/10
    255
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    • Director
      • Delbert Mann
    • Writers
      • Michael Norell
      • James Norell
    • Stars
      • Walter Matthau
      • Harry Morgan
      • Susan Blakely
    • 8User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

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    Walter Matthau
    Walter Matthau
    • Harmon Cobb
    Harry Morgan
    Harry Morgan
    • Judge Stoddard Bell
    Susan Blakely
    Susan Blakely
    • Billie
    Ariana Richards
    Ariana Richards
    • Nancy
    Brian Kerwin
    Brian Kerwin
    • Jack Adkins
    Barton Heyman
    Barton Heyman
    • Donald
    Norman Rose
    • Judge Gold
    Larry Keith
    • Dr. Obenland
    Michael Mantell
    Michael Mantell
    • Dr. Friedman
    David Leary
    David Leary
    • District Attorney Yates
    Bridgit Ryan
    • Marika
    Susan Chapek
    • Melina Vovakis
    Don Brockett
    Don Brockett
    • Judge Mulligan
    Bingo O'Malley
    Bingo O'Malley
    • Judge Stoneburner
    John Hall
    • Young Lawyer
    David Guthrie
    • Attorney Daily
    Tim Hartman
    • Stanley
    Prudence Barry
    • Elderly Nurse
    • Director
      • Delbert Mann
    • Writers
      • Michael Norell
      • James Norell
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      Brian Kerwin utters ' you have to get the first kiss over or it becomes a dinosaur'. Ariana Richards playing the grand daughter also played the young girl in Jurassic Park where dinosaurs ran amok.
    • Connections
      Followed by Incident in a Small Town (1994)

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    9/10
    A sad commentary on how things were in the bad old days of mental health.
    When I began watching "Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore", I was completely unaware that it was the second of three films with the same actors and characters. In 1990, the TV movie "The Incident" debuted and in 1994 "Incident in a Small Town" debuted. I know that these three films are currently posted to YouTube.

    Harmon Cobb (Walter Matthau) and his daughter-in-law and granddaughter have just moved to Anne Arundel County in Maryland. This is because retired Judge Bell (Harry Morgan) has given Cobb a job at his legal practice. But Bell is odd in that he not only gives him a job but buys him a car and house....and apparently this generosity is related somehow to the previous movie...which I'll be seeing next.

    At this law firm, Cobb is well paid but also a bit unhappy, as he doesn't have much to do and Judge Bell is too generous. In the midst of this, a man comes to Cobb and asks him for help. It seems his Greek girlfriend is stuck in a hellish Maryland state mental hospital. She checked herself in but cannot check herself out...and the hospital isn't being very cooperative.

    I assume this is not based on any particular true case, though the story rings true in many ways. Back in the 1940s, some psychiatric facilities were indeed awful and did more harm than good. In essence, many were just dumping grounds for the unwanted. Now I am not attacking current psychiatric treatment, after all, I am a trained psychotherapist...but things were often quite bad back in the 'good old days'...and the film does a nice job of addressing this problem.

    There's plenty more to the film, including a subplot involving the daughter-in-law, but the bottom line is that the film is well worth seeing due to the fine acting and lovely period look of this story. Well worth seeing...and it left me eager to see the other two movies.
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    • Release date
      • January 19, 1992 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Cobb's Law
    • Filming locations
      • Carnegie Mellon University - 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
    • Production companies
      • Procter & Gamble Productions (PGP)
      • RHI Entertainment
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    • Runtime
      2 hours
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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