Class Action

6.3 1991 1h 45m United States of America

Drama Crime History

A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain promotion, she must defend an auto manufacturer against charges that their explosion-prone station wagons are unsafe. As her mother begs for peace, Maggie takes on her dad in a trial that turns increasingly personal and nasty.

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A father and a daughter, divided by a case, endangered by the truth. A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain promotion, she must defend an auto manufacturer against charges that their explosion-prone station wagons are unsafe. As her mother begs for peace, Maggie takes on her dad in a trial that turns increasingly personal and nasty.

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Directors

Michael Apted

Writers

Carolyn Shelby, Christopher Ames, Samantha Shad

Cast

Gene Hackman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Colin Friels, Joanna Merlin, Laurence Fishburne, Donald Moffat, Jan Rubeš, Matt Clark, Fred Thompson, Jonathan Silverman, Joan McMurtrey, Anne Ramsay, David Byron, Tim Hopper, Robert David Hall

Production

Interscope Communications, 20th Century Fox

Languages

English

Countries

United States of America