The Trial Of The Chicago 7

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	Eddie Redmayne	Tom Hayden
	Alex Sharp	Rennie Davis
	Sacha Baron Cohen	Abbie Hoffman
	Jeremy Strong	Jerry Rubin
	John Carroll Lynch	David Dellinger
	Yahya Abdul-Mateen II	Bobby Seale
	Mark Rylance	William Kunstler
	Joseph Gordon-Levitt	Richard Schultz
	Ben Shenkman	Leonard Weinglass
	J.C. MacKenzie	Thomas Foran
	Frank Langella	Judge Julius Hoffman
	Danny Flaherty	John Froines
	Noah Robbins	Lee Weiner
	John Doman	John Mitchell
	Michael Keaton	Ramsey Clark
	Kelvin Harrison Jr.	Fred Hampton
	Caitlin Fitzgerald	Agent Daphne O'Connor
	Brady Jenness	David Dellinger's Son
	Meghan Rafferty	Mrs. Dellinger
	Juliette Angelo	Juror 6
	Brendan Burke	Bailiff
	Tah von Allmen	Mrs. Winter
	Alan Metoskie	Allen Ginsberg
	John Gawlik	Policeman That Arrests Jerry
	Kevin O'Donnell	Bar Patron 1

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Director	Aaron Sorkin
Writer	Aaron Sorkin
Producer	Max Adler, Cary Anderson, Sacha Baron Cohen, Gail Benefiel, Jonathan Moore, Stuart M. Besser, Marc Butan, Dru Davis, Misook Doolittle, Maurice Fadida, Stephanie Garvin, Mickey Gooch Jr., J. Todd Harris, Matt Jackson, Anthony Katagas, Nancy Kirhoffer, Monica Levinson, Lauren Lohman, Laurie MacDonald, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steve Matzkin, Jan McAdoo, Evan Metropoulos, Charles Miller, Walter F. Parkes, Buddy Patrick, Marc Platt, Shivani Rawat, Joseph P. Reidy, Kristina Rivera
Musician	Daniel Pemberton
Photography	Phedon Papamichael

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My quick rating - 7,5/10. This is a case where personal preference on two really great movies dealing with a similar time period and topic is the only thing that separates them. I personally thought Judas was the better of the two, and should be Oscar winner. But this is just splitting hairs. In this epic case of the shady happenings during and around the 1968 Democratic convention we have some OUTSTANDING acting top to bottom. The dialogue is so crisp, and so quickly delivered that the seriousness may overshadow the good humor that is slipped in so subtly, a second listen is sometimes necessary. Every award is deserving, even the one of 15 minutes of fame are long over, Sascha Baron Cohen, who turns around and pisses me off to no end in a great performance as well. The link between the two flicks is timing, and one of the litigants of this movie happens to be the leader of the Black Panthers who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Read the linked review above to put them together. For a courtroom drama that could have easily bored you to death, are tried way to hard to be cutesy with the protestors instead Aaron Sorkin keeps a solid pace that has your attention from beginning to end. Near must watch material in my eyes. Enjoy!

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