A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain promotion, she must defend an auto manufacturer against charges that their explosion-prone station wagons are unsafe. As her mother begs for peace, Maggie takes on her dad in a trial that turns increasingly personal and nasty.

"A father and a daughter, divided by a case, endangered by the truth."

Credits

Michael AptedDirector

Gene HackmanJedediah Tucker Ward

Mary Elizabeth MastrantonioMaggie Ward

Colin FrielsMichael Grazier

Joanna MerlinEstelle Ward