Robert Woodfield is a criminal defense attorney, and he has defended a lot of criminals, many of whom are guilty, but has maintained that everyone deserves a competent defense, which he provides whether they are guilty or not. Currently he is defending Martin Ritter, a killer, whom he gets off. Later he has dinner with a friend, and his friend tells him that he needs to talk to him about something important. He is about to leave when some masked men go to his friend and kill him, when one of the men takes off his mask; it's Martin Ritter. Now being his lawyer, Robert can't say anything about what he saw. But that doesn't stop him from investigating what his dead friend was so worried about. It seems that he has stumbled onto something big, and instead of killing him they frame his wife for murder to get him to back off. But he doesn't and both his wife and him are now in danger. And still has no idea what's going on. Will he find out before they get to him?
Acting
Dean Stockwell elevates everything he touches
Director
Lee H. Katzin
Eric Roberts
Robert Woodfield
Hannes Jaenicke
Martin Ritter
Tatjana Patitz
Leight Woodfield
Dean Stockwell
Charlie Mason
Franc Luz
Craig Dixon
Natalija Nogulich
Judge Hargreaves
Rif Hutton
Sidney Evans
Jim Antonio
Attorney Dalton (as James Antonio)
Kevin Dobson
Police Captain
Kenn Michael
Eddie Rush (as Kenny Blank)
Sondra Spriggs
Sheri Evans (as Sondra Spriggs Williamson)
Pete Turner
Russell
Frank Lloyd
Mikey
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Lee H. Katzin's final theatrical film—he directed the original 'The Phynx' and episodes of 'MacGyver' before this straight-to-video swan song.
Released in the shadow of 'Primal Fear' (1996), this tries to mine similar 'lawyer too close to his client' territory with roughly 1/1000th the budget and Richard Gere's smolder replaced by Eric Roberts' barely-contained hysteria.
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