Criminal Law

Criminal Law

Movie

  • Duration: 1h 57min
  • Music: Jerry Goldsmith,Kenneth Hall,Ian Fuller,Penny Woolley,Peter Dansie
  • Award(s): Best Film 1989 (Won) Awards List
  • Similar To: Hedda, Snow White
  • Story:
    A rising young attorney successfully defends a man accused of murder, only to have the same type of murder then happen again. Right away the previously defended man hires the attorney again, and although the attorney is quite certain that he is the killer, he agrees to again defend him... much to the consternation of his friends. However, he explains that by being his attorney he will be better able to catch the man in a mistake... and on this the rest of the film develops, with the killer playing a cat and mouse game with the attorney until, at last, they both must recognize that they are not all that different.
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5.6/10
IMDb

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STORY AND RATINGS

Story
A rising young attorney successfully defends a man accused of murder, only to have the same type of murder then happen again. Right away the previously defended man hires the attorney again, and although the attorney is quite certain that he is the killer, he agrees to again defend him... much to the consternation of his friends. However, he explains that by being his attorney he will be better able to catch the man in a mistake... and on this the rest of the film develops, with the killer playing a cat and mouse game with the attorney until, at last, they both must recognize that they are not all that different.
Ratings

5.6/10

IMDb

AWARDS

Won
Best Film Award

1989 | Martin

BOX OFFICE

Budget 5,000,000 USD

Box Office Collection 9,974,446 USD

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

One of three movies featuring Gary Oldman and Kevin Bacon. The movies are Criminal Law (1988), JFK (1991), and Murder in the First (1995).

First use of an American accent in a movie by English actor Gary Oldman.

The film's opening prologue cites a famous quotation from the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The quote reads: "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." A year later, The Abyss (1989) opened with just the second part of the same quote.

The musical score contains a sample from "The Rhythm of the Heat" by Peter Gabriel.

Was screened at the Festival of Festivals in Toronto on September 15, 1988 and then later shown in 1,160 theaters for its domestic US release during the following Spring.

Popular Dialogues

"Martin Thiel: I love the rain... it washes everything away... makes it clean."

"Prof. Clemens: We were meant to act, even if we make mistakes. That's why we put a sharp point on a pencil and why we put an eraser on the other end."