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...And Justice For All
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...And Justice for All is a 1979 American legal comedy-drama film directed by Norman Jewison and starring Al Pacino , Jack Warden and John Forsythe . Lee Strasberg , Jeffrey Tambor , Christine Lahti , Craig T. Nelson , Thomas Waites and Sam Levene (in his final screen performance) appear in supporting roles. The Oscar -nominated screenplay was written by Valerie Curtin and Barry Levinson . It was filmed in Baltimore , including the courthouse area. It received two Academy Award nominations: Best Actor (Pacino) and Best Original Screenplay (Curtin and Levinson). Plot Arthur Kirkland, a Baltimore defense attorney, is in jail on a contempt-of-court charge after punching Judge Henry T. Fleming while arguing the case of Jeff McCullaugh. McCullaugh was stopped for a minor traffic offense, then mistaken for a killer of the same name, and has already spent a year and a half in jail without being convicted of a crime. Although there is strong new evidence that McCullaugh is innocent, Fleming refuses to consider his appeal due to its late submission, so he remains in prison. Kirkland starts a new case defending Ralph Agee, a young black cross-dresser arrested for a robbery who is terrified o…
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