CLASS ACTION - 1991
CLASS ACTION - Strong Cast, Weak Plot
Class Action is being hailed as this year's Presumed Innocent. Well, it doesn't even come close. First of all, Presumed Innocent offered us an intelligent, stylish, and suspenseful courtroom drama.
The storyline in Class Action centers on a corporate lawsuit in which two lawyers - a liberal father (Gene Hackman) and an aggressive daughter (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) take opposing sides.
The case is the weakest part of the story with its resolution predictable 20 minutes into the film. What is interesting in the relationship between the father and daughter. I just wish the audience could have seen more of their personal history together instead of the courtroom scenes.
Hackman and Mastrantonio are excellent in their roles especially with the lack of material they are given. There just needs to be more of a balance between the courtroom drama and the father-daughter drama.
Class Action is being hailed as this year's Presumed Innocent. Well, it doesn't even come close. First of all, Presumed Innocent offered us an intelligent, stylish, and suspenseful courtroom drama.
The storyline in Class Action centers on a corporate lawsuit in which two lawyers - a liberal father (Gene Hackman) and an aggressive daughter (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) take opposing sides.
The case is the weakest part of the story with its resolution predictable 20 minutes into the film. What is interesting in the relationship between the father and daughter. I just wish the audience could have seen more of their personal history together instead of the courtroom scenes.
Hackman and Mastrantonio are excellent in their roles especially with the lack of material they are given. There just needs to be more of a balance between the courtroom drama and the father-daughter drama.
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