Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by serving it to Galvin on a silver platter—all parties are willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, Galvin suddenly realizes that the case should actually go to court—to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients... and to restore his standing as a lawyer.

• DirectorSidney Lumet
• Release8 December 1982
• GenreDrama
• Duration2h 9m
• Budget$16,000,000
• Revenue$53,977,250
• Rate
  

  7.447
  675 reviews
• Productions

  20th Century Fox, The Zanuck/Brown Company