A disgraced lawyer hunts millions in stolen cash while his own life quietly implodes — prestige TV's loss is your gain.
The story is a legal thriller about Mack Malloy, a middle-aged lawyer basically waiting to retire, who is assigned by his firm to track down another attorney who has embezzled millions from the firm and disappeared. Many of the minor characters in Pleading Guilty also appear in Scott Turow's other novels. This was a pilot for a television show based on Pleading Guilty was shot in 2010 but not picked up by the FOX network. Based on Turow's 1993 book.
Acting
Isaacs simmers with magnificent, sweaty desperation
Writing
Turow's dialogue cuts like a deposition you can't escape
Production
Chicago legal world rendered in autumnal decline
Director
Jon Avnet
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
FOX passed despite Jon Avnet's pedigree (Fried Green Tomatoes, Black Swan producer), leaving this $4M pilot in permanent limbo.
Part of a forgotten 2010 wave of 'prestige pilots that failed' — Mad Men's success made networks greedy, then terrified of slow burns.
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