IMDb plot summary: A young boy who witnessed the suicide of a mafia lawyer hires an attorney to protect him when the District Attorney tries to use him to take down a mob family.
Directed by Joel Schumacher. Starring Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Mary-Louise Parker, and Anthony LaPaglia.
Surprisingly to me, this is less of a legal drama and more... legal-adjacent, focusing on the relationship between the lawyer and her 11-year-old client and the occasional thriller sequence of the boy escaping from the people chasing him. The thriller scenes work best out of everything the film has to offer, well-paced and well-shot in a way that really drives up the tension. The film stumbles a bit more in trying to build the characters' relationship, as it always dances just on the edge of lazy stereotype and never quite settles into something that feels fully real. Still it's an enjoyable enough fluffy watch.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Client > Rogue One
The Client < The Black Cat
The Client < Cool Hand Luke
The Client < Minority Report
The Client > Walk the Line
The Client > Celeste and Jesse Forever
The Client > Badlands
The Client > Three Colors: Red
The Client > The Fixer
The Client < VeggieTales: Josh and the Big Wall!
The Client < My Favorite Year
The Client < October Sky
Final spot: #1445 out of 3289, or 56%.
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