What Is The Difference Between The Movie And Justice For All

The movie And Justice For All was released in June 1979 and stars Al Pacino, Jack Warden, John Forsythe and Lee Strasberg and. A academy award nominated movie it takes place in Baltimore. Arthur Kirkland, played by Al Pacino is a defense attorney in Baltimore who is known as an incorruptible attorney who attempts to initiate reforms in the Maryland justice system. The movie starts with Kirkland in jail on contempt of court charges he received while arguing the case of an innocent defendant. Kirkland lives haunted by the outcomes of two former trials, one client who later committed suicide in jail; the other is still alive but is in jail on a trumped-up traffic charge. As the events in the movie play out it becomes painfully clear to Kirkland just how deep corruption has spread and brings to light how much money and power can derail or cloud people’s ability to make honest ethical decisions.
Kirkland detests this judge, and faces a clash of conscience, which is a battle of ethics, to do his job or allow his personal feelings to cloud and affect his ability to defend him. Gail, an ethics committee member Kirkland is seeing, cautions him not to betray his client when he gets incriminating pictures that show the judge in compromising situations with a prostitute. The scene “You’re out of order! The whole trial is out of order!...” is a well known scene that becomes the turning point in the movies battle between Kirkland’s ethical