Marshall

Marshall

2017 "Justice has a name."
Marshall
Marshall

Marshall

7.3 | 1h58m | PG-13 | en | Drama

Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.

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7.3 | 1h58m | PG-13 | en | Drama | More Info
Released: October. 13,2017 | Released Producted By: Chestnut Ridge , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.

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Chadwick Boseman , Josh Gad , Kate Hudson

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d_alyagout Love the movie, and the story as well The actors were brilliant
John Raymond Peterson Better known for is TV series directorial achievements, Reginals Hudlin, this movie's director, hit a home run by providing us with good story telling flick that is also one about an icon of Black History, not a small thing to do. An excellent script from co-writer Michael Koskoff has a great deal to do with that because of his own background as a nationally known attorney (if you know about that sort of thing) and one with experience arguing the kind of cases that Thurgood Marshall could himself have. Then Chadwick Boseman who plays the lead character delivered a spot-on performance, believable and convincing, as Thurgood Marshall. I would venture a guess that Hudlin, Boseman and Koskoff in particular would have known the Marshall bio through and through, and most importantly believed in the telling of the story.A brief synopsis from IMDb: The story is about a young Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases.No scene is wasted and all serve a purpose building toward the climax at the end. There are actors who play important roles in the movie and they are as familiar to the viewers as one could hope to see, they deliver also excellent performances. Case in point, Josh Gad as Sam Friedman the co-counsel to Thurgood; I was glad to see him in this role, a versatile character role where we see a man develop before our very eyes, as Friedman did in real life with that case he defended. Sterling K. Brown as the accused Joseph Spell, brilliant casting. James Cromwell as Judge Foster; Cromwell, the veteran and consummate professional can practically guarantee an expert performance in any role and does just that here. Kate Hudson, the always beautiful actress plays Eleanor Strubing, the accuser in the story and Jeremy Bobb as her husband. Bobb has impressed me recently with his performances in 'Manhunt: Unabomber', 'The Knick' and 'Godless'. I have seen countless movies about court/law related stories in my days, but one of the scenes near the end is what I'd call a money shot of all money shots in such kind of movies, as it delivers a dramatic moment and one I've never ever seen before. I am certain future movies will borrow from that scene, I'm convinced of it. As much as I'm tempted too tell you more, I don't want to deprive you of that pleasure, you'll recognize it when you see it. Writer Michael Koskoff has to be extremely proud of that and he deserves it. Sterling K. Brown delivered the lines that will never be forgotten, and did so convincingly. See this movie!
adonis98-743-186503 About a young Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases. Marshall benefits from a strong chemistry and perfomances from it's 2 leads Boseman and Gad who are both excellent in their roles and their dramatic and comedic when the script wants them to be. Kate Hudson and Sterling K. Brown do a good job as well in their roles, James Cromwell is perfect as The Judge although i was left disappointed with Dan Stevens perfomance he was the stereotype racist d*ck that this kind of movies have and i didn't like him one bit also Sophia Bush has a small cameo that i felt was interesting and lead to something and as for the story itself? It was political i won't lie but it was handled with charm and at times lots of fun which made it rather tolerable rather than other movies of it's kind and especially with all those things that are happening right now in Hollywood? This film feels 100% relevant for it's time as well. Overall Marshall is not perfect it has some problems within it's characters but the film has an excellent pair of actors as it's lead and also a great script and soundtrack. (8/10)
lavatch According to journalist Will Haygood, Thurgood Marshall "trafficked in miracles" in his brilliant legal career. As noted in this film biography, Marshall was the "prime architect of the legal battles for civil rights" in America in the mid-twentieth century. He won 29 out of 32 civil rights cases that he argued before the Supreme Court. In 1954, he won the landmark case of Brown v. the Board of Education that desegregated American Schools. And in 1967, he became the first African-American justice of the Supreme Court.This superb film focuses on the famous 1940 trial of Joseph Spell, the African-American chauffeur accused of raping his white employer, Eleanor Strubing. Working with attorney Samuel Friedman, Marshall served as co-counsel during the trial that eventually resulted in Spell's acquittal.The film is successful in presenting the world of 1940, introducing such figures as Langston Hughes and Nora Zeale Hurston. The dialogue is crisp with such memorable lines as Marshall's succinct goal in his civil rights battles: "It's not the fires I'm after, but the fire itself." A fictionalized scene in a bar in a fight ensues results in a simple statement by a woman that becomes the catalyst for Marshall's understanding of the Joseph Spell case: "Men will be men, and women will be women."The centerpiece of the film was the trial, which unfolded with great realism. It did not seem like a typically Hollywood written court drama, but one that proceeded on the unbalanced court system of the 1940s. The screenwriters took great pains to depict the hurdles faced by Friedman and Marshall in overcoming the prejudice of the prosecuting attorney, the judge, and the jury.