A Civil Action Comments

  • Devyn 2022-03-24 09:03:37

    The charm of the original book is that its rich details make it very easy to bring yourself into the story. Even knowing the ending will not affect the charm of the story at all, because there are too many things that may happen before the ending is reached. But the movie loses this charm because of its limited length. For example, the battle of Rule 11 motion failed to show one percent of the wonderful book in the movie, and for example, the various arrangements during the settlement...

  • Erica 2022-03-23 09:03:17

    Too pattern, too blunt. It's not really a success to adapt real events like...

  • Jovanny 2022-03-23 09:03:17

    Too pattern, too blunt. It's not really a success to adapt real events like...

  • Erica 2022-03-21 09:03:17

    Lawyers are neither evil liars nor omnipotent saviors. To a certain extent, they are just hired labor to help clients solve problems. It is a duty and a duty for him to do his duty faithfully, but it is not a sin if he is...

  • Yolanda 2022-03-21 09:03:17

    In class, why do I use this to write my...

  • Marlin 2022-03-21 09:03:17

    Justice has a price that not everyone can afford to pay. Courtroom is probably not the place to look for truth. Good personal injury lawyers are detached. Moreover, the ending shows us sometimes things work out not the way the lawyer planned it. You will Who did you choose to be in the...

  • Gracie 2022-03-21 09:03:17

    Justice has a price that not everyone can afford to pay. Courtroom is probably not the place to look for truth. Good personal injury lawyers are detached. Moreover, the ending shows us sometimes things work out not the way the lawyer planned it. You will Who did you choose to be in the...

  • Jacques 2022-03-19 09:01:10

    7/10. The main theme of the hero lawyer and the client, but the director did not regard the film as a tribute to the American dream, and tried his best to restore the complicated process of interviewing witnesses and pretrial conferences, which is very abnormal in fast-paced and entertaining Hollywood. On the other hand, the narrative method is too orthodox, and tends to be a legal education film. The audience is most concerned about how the protagonist who has no warm heart, no money and no...

  • Kianna 2022-03-18 09:01:09

    The story is shot out of proportion. . So it seems verbose and...

  • Rogelio 2022-03-18 09:01:09

    It is impossible to find the truth in court, what a lawyer should do is to seek mediation or justice. Many times the problem encountered is that it cannot be overcome with the law, but if you have the right belief, you are moving...

Extended Reading

A Civil Action quotes

  • Jan Schlichtmann: [narrating] The odds of a plaintiff's lawyer winning in civil court are two to one against. Think about that for a second. Your odds of surviving a game of Russian roulette are better than winning a case at trial. 12 times better. So why does anyone do it? They don't. They settle. Out of the 780,000, only 12,000 or 11/2 percent ever reach a verdict. The whole idea of lawsuits is to settle, to compel the other side to settle. And you do that by spending more money than you should, which forces them to spend more money than they should, and whoever comes to their senses first loses. Trials are a corruption of the entire process and only fools who have something to prove end up ensnared in them. Now when I say prove, I don't mean about the case, I mean about themselves.

  • James Gordon: [to secretary] Every credit-card application we send in, we get two more in the mail. Here's one from some bank I've never heard of, in North Dakota. Fill it out. Fill them all out. It's the last great pyramid scheme in America.