A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after 25 years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.
22 September 1969, New York City, New York, USA
21 September 1974, The Bronx, New York, USA
27 October 1922, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
3 November 1953, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
25 August 1964, Tacoma, Washington, USA
28 November 1933, Redding Ridge, Connecticut, USA
3 March 1932, New York City, New York, USA
May 3, 1968 in Dover, New Jersey, USA
18 March 1927, New York City, New York, USA
25 August 1930, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
29 May 1945, Havana, Cuba
August 15, 2016
...it's certainly impossible not to get a kick out of any film in which Sean Connery delivers the following line: "If that's a confession then my ass is a banjo!"February 13, 2001
It doesn't bog down in the bogs, but it's slow-moving just about everyplace else.January 01, 2000
It's brutal, horribly manipulative, and we've seen this stuff before in better pictures.June 18, 2002
In Connery it has a hero who is inescapably appealing.January 01, 2000
The longer you stay with it, the more routine and uninspired it seems -- not to mention cowardly.December 13, 2004
Forgettable and less than thrilling.July 25, 2002
Ridiculous from start to finish. Connery, Harris, and Fishburne couldn't have wasted their time in a less productive fashion.March 11, 2005
Connery is as steady as always....great twistsFebruary 22, 2008
Good crime flick with strength in casting of Sean Connery.January 01, 2000
A sorry excuse for a thriller, with both narrative and character handled with remarkable ineptitude.April 12, 2002
Despite its merits, the script fails to escape the silly season that fouls up so many thrillers, that time when the twists merely seem like the narrative equivalents of those violin shrieks on a cheesy score.January 01, 2000
There is no psychological depth, no real motivation, no human values to weigh, just characters jerked here and there like puppets in an arbitrary plot.