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The Trial is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 10 september 2010 with Matthew Modine

The Trial (2010)

The Trial
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Released in USA 10 september 2010
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Romance
Rating56% 2.802412.802412.802412.802412.80241

The Trial is a 2010 drama film starring Matthew Modine. It is based on the novel of the same name by Robert Whitlow.

Synopsis

After his two sons and wife die in a horrific car crash, suicide seems to be the only escape for small town attorney Kent "Mac" McClain until he's assigned a capital punishment case involving the murder of the daughter of a powerful business man, in which the victim was drugged. All the odds seem stacked against McClain, and he loses the case. However, McClain manages to save the accused man's life by getting him off death row. At the end of the movie, a private investigator discovers that it was someone else who committed the murder and McClain's client is exonerated.

Actors

Matthew Modine

(Mac)Randy Wayne

(Pete Thomason)Bob Gunton

(Joe Whetstone)Robert Forster

(Ray)Rance Howard

(Judge Danielson)
And :
Clare Carey
Larry Bagby
Nikki DeLoach
Burgess Jenkins
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