When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control. Declaring a mistrial, he takes the accused, the judge and the jury hostage...and begins a trial of his own.
Acting
Pullman goes full desperate dad energy but make him a cop with a gun.
Writing
The courtroom-as-hostage-situation premise commits harder than it should.
Director
Heywood Gould
Bill Pullman
Steve Donohue
Robert Loggia
Captain Lou Unger
Blair Underwood
Lieutenant C. Hodges
Leo Burmester
Commissioner Russell Crane
Roma Maffia
Laurie Meisinger
James Rebhorn
Mayor Taylor
Jon Seda
Eddie Rios
Josef Sommer
Nick Mirsky
Casey Siemaszko
Detective Bobby Zito
Kate Burton
Katherine Donohue
Peter MacNeill
Chief Inspecter Ray Hartman
Roberta Maxwell
Judge Friel
Anita La Selva
Paula Lomax
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dropped smack in the middle of 90s 'tough on crime' hysteria and post-OJ anxiety about courtroom theatrics.
Heywood Gould wrote Fort Apache the Bronx and Cocktail—this is him doing prestige TV movie trash and loving it.
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