Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall star as father and son in the David Dobkin (Shanghai Nights, Wedding Crashers) directed family drama, The Judge.
From a story and screenplay by Nick Schenk (co-written by Bill Dubuque)
Downey Jr. is Hank Palmer, an arrogant big shot New York defence
attorney who returns to his hometown of Carlinville, Indiana, for his
mother’s funeral. While there he re-bonds with his brothers Glen
(Vincent D’Onofrio) and Dale (Jeremy Strong), and an ex-flame Samantha
(Vera Farmiga), but soon discovers that his estranged and seriously ill
father Judge Joseph Palmer (Robert Duvall), is suspected of murder and
soon to face trial. With Joseph initially unwilling to allow Hank to
represent him, a firm motive and the inexplicable gaps in his testimony
leave plenty for prosecutor Dwight Dickham (Billy Bob Thornton) to use
to put him away. That is unless father and son can put aside their
difference and mend decades of conflict.
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