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The Verdict
1982 2h 9m R
Drama
7.7
88%
88%
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An outcast, alcoholic Boston lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.
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Directed By
Sidney Lumet
Written By
Jay Presson Allen
Studio
20th Century Fox
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Zanuck/Brown Productions
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Cast of The Verdict
Paul Newman
Frank Galvin
Charlotte Rampling
Laura Fischer
Jack Warden
Mickey Morrissey
James Mason
Ed Concannon
Milo O’Shea
Judge Hoyle
Lindsay Crouse
Kaitlin Costello
Edward Binns
Bishop Brophy
Julie Bovasso
Maureen Rooney
Roxanne Hart
Sally Doneghy
James Handy
Kevin Doneghy
Wesley Addy
Dr. Towler
Joe Seneca
Dr. Thompson
Lewis J. Stadlen
Dr. Gruber
Kent Broadhurst
Joseph Alito
Colin Stinton
Billy
Burtt Harris
Jimmy
Scott Rhyne
Young Priest
Susan Benenson
Deborah Ann Kaye
Evelyn Moore
Dr. Gruber's Nurse
Juanita Fleming
Dr. Gruber's Maid
Jack Collard
Bailiff
Ralph Douglas
Clerk
Gregor Roy
Jury Foreman
John Blood
Funeral Director
Dick McGoldrick
Manager of 2nd Funeral Parlor
Edward Mason
Widow's Son
Patty O'Brien
Irish Nurse #1
Maggie Task
Irish Nurse #2
Joseph Bergmann
Friedman
Herbert Rubens
Abrams
J.P. Foley
John
Leib Lensky
Wheelchair Patient
H. Clay Dear
Courthouse Lawyer
J.J. Clark
Courthouse Guard
Gregory Doucette
Sheraton Bar Waiter
Tony LaFortezza
Sheraton Bartender
Marvin Beck
Sheraton Bar Patron
Herb Peterson
Sheraton Bar Patron
Tobin Bell
Courtroom Observer (uncredited)
Bruce Willis
Courtroom Observer (uncredited)
Murphy Cross
District Attorney (uncredited)
The Verdict Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The performances, the dialogue and the plot all work together like a rare machine.
Movie Metropolis
James Plath
Count me among those who think the Best Actor Oscar that Paul Newman won for "The Color of Money" was a make-up call. The groundwork was laid right here in "The Verdict," and with the equally accomplished "Absence of Malice" a year earlier.
7M Pictures
Kevin Carr
Not an action flick by any means, The Verdict is a slow burn from frame one to the end.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
Overrated potboiler with preposterously innacurate courtroom scenes. But Newman is great.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A cynical and gripping courtroom drama.
Associated Press
Bob Thomas
Paul Newman has the role of his later career. He uses none of his blue-eyed charm, and scarcely ever smiles except while telling bar jokes. He IS the bruised Frank Galvin, and you feel for him with every shot of Irish whiskey and every legal defeat.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
This is realistic American film acting at its veristic/imaginative best.
Variety
Variety Staff
There are many fine performances and sensitive moral issues contained in The Verdict but somehow that isn't enough to make it the compelling film it should be.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Sidney Lumet's direction, like David Mamet's patchy script, may not be quite good enough to justify the Rembrandt-like cinematography of Edward Pisoni and the brooding mood of self-importance, but it's good direction nonetheless.
FulvueDrive-in.com
Chuck O'Leary
Newman gives a brilliant performance in this powerful David and Goliath tale of a sad man's quest for redemption in the face of despair. Newman, director Lumet and the film itself all should have won an Academy Award, but sadly didn't.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
David Mamet's script is a bit theatrical for courtroom drama, but it's Paul Newman's nuanced performance, and the direction of Lumet, who uses silences and pauses as eloquently as dialogue, that distinguish the picture.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
This is as good a role as Mr. Newman has ever had, and as shrewd and substantial a performance as he has ever given, although it may not be his most entirely credible.
Gone With The Twins
Mike Massie
Reform and redemption in an anti-hero are always rewarding transformations to watch.
Washington Post
Gary Arnold
The portentousness is often a disservice to the actors, embedded in dead air with roles too feebly written to get the ventilation going.
Every Movie Has a Lesson
Don Shanahan
Not only is it the top-shelf courtroom drama it is renowned to be thirty years later, the film is an outstanding character piece and a little bit of a lawyer's equivalent to a "one last score" job.
Common Sense Media
Alistair Lawrence
Dated by the slew of movies and TV series that have followed, this 1982 courtroom drama, while solid enough, suffers from not delving enough into its main character.
Vogue
Molly Haskell
The Verdict, starring Paul Newman, is stronger on local atmosphere than plot plausibility.
Sojourner
Susan Shapiro
The acting is good, and it maintains your interest. But when it comes to the same old negative portrayal of women, The Verdict is guilty.
TV Guide
Sidney Lumet directs effectively, keeping the tension strong, and unfolding David Mamet's intelligent screenplay slowly but with maximum impact.
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