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Jedediah Tucker Ward is an esteemed trial attorney who has built his reputation defending the underdog against the huge, impenetrable corporate power structure. His daughter Maggie, also a lawyer, has more conventional aims -- namely becoming a partner in San Francisco's largest corporate law firm. Jedediah believes that his daughter is selling out by working as a corporate attorney, but Maggie sees her father's defense of the "common man" as an excuse for self-aggrandizement on the job and negligence at home. The festering antagonism between the two comes to a head when they meet in the courtroom for a class action suit against an American auto manufacturer, where Maggie represents the car company and Jedediah represents the people. (official distributor synopsis)

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English Success, shares in the company, flaunting in an Alfa Romeo Spider—all of this can be gone when loyalty and honor are weighed against each other. Class Action is a courtroom drama that slightly differs by emphasizing the relationship between the two main characters, elevating all those nineties shades on several more or less significant individuals and phenomena. Among them are Conrad L. Hall's crystal-clear images with natural light, James Horner's dramatic motif, Gene Hackman's sarcasm wrapped in naturalness, and the disarming smile of Madame Mastrantonio. The "bean-counting" in risk analysis is a rather fickle thing, as sometimes the variant can occur where you lose a pile of beans and the reputation of their grower. However, there is nothing in the world that can't be fixed with more beans. ()

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