A girl growing up alone in a Southern marsh, forgotten by a lover who goes away & accused of killing another, succeeds as an author.
Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)
Blue Bayou (2021)
A Korean American. happy with his wife & stepdaughter, is faced with deportation following an assault & false arrest by a racist cop.
Fatherhood (2021)
A widowed father tries coping with raising a baby daughter despite the doubts of friends & family because of his immaturity.
Chasing Freedom (2004)
A self-centered lawyer is changed into a compassionate human being when she is made to defend an Afghan woman who will be killed if she is deported back to her own country.
A Case of Deadly Force (1986)
The true story based on Lawrence O’Donnell’s book about how his lawyer father fought successfully to prove the Boston Police Depart. covered up their shooting of a black man.
Roxie Hart (1942)
Based on the 1926 play CHICAGO, this is the satirical story of how a brash lawyer got a wannabe married dancer freed of the charge of murdering her lover, the lesson being how fickle the press & public are.
Chicago (2012)
Filled with music & sexy dances, Chicago is set in the jazz era when 2 women kill their lovers and a flamboyant lawyer uses the press & theatrics to convince jurors to acquit them, showing the public as fickle & the law as easily manipulated.
Richard Jewell (2019)
Security guard Richard Jewell is falsely accused of making the bomb that killed 2 & injured over 100 people at the 1966 Atlantic Olympics.
Queen & Slim (2019)
The story of an unlikely black couple who, in flight from a cop killing, journey through the South where both blacks & whites consider them folk heroes.
Dark Waters (2019)
The true story of lawyer Robert Bilott who sued DuPont Chemicals on behalf of WV farmer Wilbur Tennant, whose cattle had been poisoned by the company.’s runoff water.