Publicity-hound attorney volunteers for the unpopular cause of the media-christened "Butcher Boy," a soft-spoken Kentucky hick charged with hacking up the archbishop. The viewer's concern, as events develop, is not so much with unprincipled, anything-for-a-win attorneys as it is with unprincipled, anything-for-a-win filmmakers. (The always reliable Frances McDormand stays unsullied in the sidelines role of the neat-as-a-pin psychologist.) Gregory Hoblit, who had directed a number of made-for-TV movies including the noteworthy Roe vs. Wade, maintains a television-style fixation on faces, magnified and monotonized on the big screen. Laura Linney, Andre Braugher, Alfre Woodard, Edward Norton. (1996) — Duncan Shepherd
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