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Genres:
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Comedy /
Crime /
Drama
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Release:
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Director:
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Sidney Lumet
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Actors:
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Jerry Grayson,
Vinny Vella,
Frank Pietrangolare,
Richard DeDomenico,
Nicholas A. Puccio,
Frankie Perrone,
Salvatore Paul Piro,
Vin Diesel,
Alex Rocco,
Tony Ray Rossi
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Paul Borghese,
Frank Adonis,
Peter Dinklage,
Richard Portnow,
James Biberi
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Duration:
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125 min.
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Rating:
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(7.1/10)79
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Plot Summary:
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A stagecraft based on the longest Mafia grief in U.S. history, mobster Jack DiNorscio, faced with a series of charges, decides to position trial as an alternative of ratting out his family and associates. A wrench is thrown into the system when DiNorscio opts to defend himself.
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Find Me Guilty
Michael PhillipsFor half a century, hot or cool, the trial dramas of director Sidney Lumet have established a clean, gliding visual order even when there's disorder in the court.
Before Twelve Angry Men (1957), Lumet worked in live television, a medium not conducive to a lot of fancy cutting. Now, a half-century later and a generation after The Verdict, Lumet is back in court with the minor but well-crafted Find Me Guilty. He's still going with what works: lengthy, leisurely takes allowing us to take in a lot of prime faces at once. (Spike Lee, he of the relentless "Watch me!" technique, could use a little Lumet in his diet.)
Based on the protracted 1986-88 criminal trial of the Lucchese crime family of New Jersey, Find Me Guilty stars Vin Diesel ??? wit...
Find Me Guilty
Claudia PuigSitting through the belabored courtroom drama Find Me Guilty feels like a particularly prolonged session of jury duty.
The film, based on the true story of the longest Mafia trial in U.S. history, is heavy-handed and clich??d. Perhaps most offensive of all, it seeks to celebrate the adorable qualities of hardened criminals and wants us to root for their freedom. The most lovable of the band of thugs on trial - or at least the loudest - is Jack DiNorscio, a two-bit New Jersey wise guy played, or rather mugged, by Vin Diesel in a bad wig.
He has a cockeyed sense of honor (don't all Hollywood gangsters?) and prides himself on never ratting on a buddy. Though severely limited in his speechifying skills, he decides to represent himself in court.
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