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liked It: 665 Vote
Release year: 2020
casts: Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen
runtime: 2 Hour 9 minutes
User rating: 8 of 10
The Trial of the Chicago 7 is a movie starring Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, and Sacha Baron Cohen. The story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in
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An enjoyable and very timely treatment of the sequence of events, from the '68 Chicago convention protests through to the completion of the main trial, with the deft touch of Aaron Sorkin providing appropriate gravitas and depth. First-class performances, although at least two of the characters who I personally met in meetings decades ago, Ramsey Clark (I spent several days with him when he was a controversial trouble-shooting NYC international attorney in 1990) and Jerry Rubin (in a small informal campus discussion group, as a protest leader in 1970) in no way resembled the actors who play them in the film, Michael Keaton and Jeremy Strong respectively. It's quite a switch seeing Strong, well-deserved Emmy winner as the emotionally unstable media executive Kendall Roy in Succession, playing a Yippie leader, but hey Jerry Rubin became a successful stockbroker later on in life which makes the link between the roles credible.
I find that court related films, especially those based on actual events, carry the great risk of either ending up extremely intense or excruciatingly monotonous. This however, is one of the very few that pulls it off with ease in all aspects, to which also provides some unexpected humour (yes; mainly from Sacha Baron Cohen.
Another part of the story I definitely didn't expect going in was how character driven it was, propelled by an absolutely extraordinary cast; who some should at least get some award recognition this coming season for when the time arrives.
So far, this is probably my current favourite film to have released this year, despite the lack of competition.