Nooo, do not apologize! We love to see your legal mind analysis of the movie! It is nice to see that people versed in the law find the movie interesting (and not just invented or wrong).

About to find out if Mary can handle the truth!

In the military, you are required by law to follow orders from your superiors. However, there is such a thing as unlawful orders and you are obligated not to follow them. However, determining on your own what's lawful and what's unlawful is a position you never wanna find yourself in. If you follow an unlawful order, you're as guilty as the superior officer ordering you to do it, however if YOUR definition of what is unlawful doesn't match what your other superior officers feel is unlawful, then you're guilty of disobeying a lawful order. It's such a sticky situation. Military law is a mess but then again so is civilian law. Great reaction to a great film, btw, Mary!

"Can he get his steak knives now?" Absolutely LOVED that. <3

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“To Kill A Mockingbird” is a classic.

Hi Mary! This is one of my favorite movies written by one of my favorite writers, Aaron Sorkin.

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The United States Marine Corps Silent Drill Team, seen at the beginning of the movie, performs their drill maneuvers at exactly that speed. They are amazingly precise. And they perform their displays without a single verbal command.

As a Marine Sergeant in artillery, "code reds" - though not a term we used - happened all the time. For example, we'd spend weeks in 29 Palms for training exercises and training can be boring. Marines would get lethargic, feisty, sometimes belligerent. If I had a Marine on my gun section like this, I'd give him a shovel and make him dig a hole. 29 Palms is a dessert so digging a hole in the sand isn't a fun exercise. If a Marine didn't get out of "bed" ("bed" being his sleeping bag on the ground, in the dessert) quick enough, we'd zip it up and tie him to the barrel of the howitzer for a while. Not during a fire mission, of course. There was a Marine on a WestPac that wasn't taking care of his hygiene; he was banished from the berthing area and forced to sleep in the cab of a 5-ton in the well deck of the ship for the remainder of the cruise. Another Marine in garrison stole a camera; he was dropped off the second floor balcony of the BEQ onto the bushes below. The Code is real in a combat arms unit in the Corps. Or, at least it was when I was in. In most cases this form of discipline worked, and aside from some short term embarrassment, there was nothing permanent to it as there would be with an NJP. Jessup's statement that he discourages the practice officially but condones it off the record, was a pretty accurate reflection of my experiences.

Another court room drama I think you will enjoy is the 1962 movie, To Kill A Mockingbird.

Hey Marijke, one aspect I like a lot about this film is that Reiner didn't force a romantic connection between Cruise and Moore. Such a welcome change. I know you wanted that Romantic kiss but that would have undermined both lawyers in the fight for the lives of Dawson and BArnes.

Your predictions were so spot on that I kept thinking, “she has seen this movie before.” Lol. But that’s very impressive foresight.

Great reaction! Can I recommend you watch “INHERIT THE WIND”, with Spencer Tracy and Frederick March portraying opposing lawyers in a case based on the real life “Scopes Monkey Trial”

I figured you'd like this one. For other court dramas do "The Verdict" (1982) one of Paul Newman's finest, "Anatomy of a Murder" (1959), "Inherit the Wind" (1960), "Judgement At Nuremberg" (1961) and "Witness for the Prosecution" (1957). I'm sure you'll like these. ✌😎

A Time To Kill is pretty classic. Sandra Bullock, Samuel L Jackson, and Mathew McConaughy in his breakout role, based on a John Grisham novel. Basically about jury nullification and what justice is compared to what the law dictates.

Mary:

I would recommend the movie Runaway Jury with John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, and Rachel Weisz. It's a great court room drama that focuses more on the Jury selection, jury tampering, and the internal politics that go on within the jury room during a case.

The writer of this movie was Aaron Sorkin, he later became a legendary show-runner for a bunch of highly-regarded TV shows like SportsNight and The West Wing.

You should watch Scent Of A Woman, with Al Pacino! It’s not exactly a “court of law” movie, but there’s a court room involved toward the end, and it features one of the greatest speeches in a movie ever! And there’s a moral dilemma driving it all.