Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana
A prepubescent chess prodigy is encouraged to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer
After a night of partying with a woman he picked up, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder
At the risk of bankrupting his firm and career, lawyer Jan Schlichtman takes on a case involving two companies responsible for causing children to be diagnosed with leukemia due to the towns contaminated water supp