The Defenders: Taking the First
The Defenders: Taking the First
| 25 October 1998 (USA)
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A racist provokes four teens into beating a Latino youth to death after one of his fiery speeches on a college campus. The Prestons are first called upon to defend one of the youths who gives testimony against the other three. Then, in a turnaround, the family of the murdered boy hires the Prestons to try to get a conviction against the racist.

Reviews
Helloturia

I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

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Hadrina

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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Deanna

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

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Allissa

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

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