A lawyer finds himself at the center of a trial in which a for-profit foster care agency puts a known sex offender into the same foster home as his young client Jamal, which leads to catastrophic results.
Acting
Shane Paul McGhie's controlled rage will wreck you.
Writing
Refuses the easy redemption arc Hollywood loves.
Direction
Delara lets silence do the screaming.
Director
Youssef Delara
Matthew Modine
Michael Trainer
Shane Paul McGhie
Jamal Randolph
Louis Gossett Jr.
Judge George Taylor
Julie Benz
Pamela Dupree
Brenda Bakke
Linda Ryan
Amy Brenneman
Kim Trainer
Michael Beach
Bill Randolph
Greg Germann
Simon Davis
Michael Hyatt
Shaina Randolph
Blake Altounian
Benjamin Trainer
Jordan Belfi
Jeff Masters
Dylan Vox
County Guard #2
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Louis Gossett Jr. demanded his judge character not be soft-spoken; he based the cadence on Thurgood Marshall's exhaustion with systemic injustice.
McGhie stayed in character between takes for three weeks, leading the foster care consultants on set to believe he'd actually aged out of the system.
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