Cher smack dab in the sweet spot of her acting career.
- Quote: Kathleen Riley: I spend all of my day with murders and rapists, and what's really crazy, I like them.
- Directed by Peter Yates, the man responsible for filming the greatest car chase in film history, Bullitt.
- Cast includes John Mahoney best known as the dad on Fraiser.
This tension-filled courtroom drama opens with the suicide of a Supreme Court justice. Then the young Justice Department employee to whom he had given privileged information is discovered dead. A deaf-mute Vietnam veteran is charged with her murder and Cher, a public defender, is appointed counsel.
