Craig Lahiff's impassioned, if wearily familiar, courtroom drama is based on Australia's (apparently) infamous 1958 "Max Stuart Case"?where a rape and murder confession was beaten out of a young aborigine. It's got two crusading, system-shaking lawyers (Robert Carlyle and Kerry Fox), an oily Crown P...
Craig Lahiff’s impassioned, if wearily familiar, courtroom drama is based on Australia’s (apparently) infamous 1958 “Max Stuart Case”?where a rape and murder confession was beaten out of a young aborigine. It’s got two crusading, system-shaking lawyers (Robert Carlyle and Kerry Fox), an oily Crown Prosecutor (Charles Dance) and plenty of rousing speeches about justice. Watchable.