The Verdict

Synopsis

An alcoholic, disgraced Boston trial lawyer on the brink of losing his license is handed a slam-dunk medical malpractice case against a Catholic hospital where an anesthesiologist's blunder left a young mother in an irreversible coma, rejecting a lucrative $210,000 out-of-court settlement to take the powerful Archdiocese and a formidable corporate defense firm to a jury trial to fight for justice and his own soul: 'There is no other case. This is the case.' Sidney Lumet and David Mamet's five-time Oscar-nominated courtroom summit starring Paul Newman in one of his greatest dramatic performances.