Judge, The

When a cynical, high-powered, Chicago defense attorney (Robert Downey, Jr.), who has a plucky daughter (Emma Tremblay) and an adulterous wife ( Sarah Lancaster), returns to his hometown in Indiana for his mother's funeral in this compelling, well-acted, star-studded (Vincent D'Onofrio, David Krumholtz, Vera Farmiga, Dax Shepard, Leighton Meester, Ken Howard, Balthazar Getty, and Jeremy Strong), 141-minute film, he ends up reluctantly representing his estranged, cantankerous father (Robert Duvall) against a no-nonsense lawyer (Billy Bob Thornton) after the longtime judge is arrested for allegedly hitting a nighttime bicyclist whom he once sentenced in his courtroom.
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