The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

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25/09/2020 (US)•Drama, History•2h 10m

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In 1968, democracy refused to back down.

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What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.

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Eddie Redmayne
Tom Hayden
Sacha Baron Cohen
Abbie Hoffman
Mark Rylance
William Kunstler
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Richard Schultz
Frank Langella
Judge Julius Hoffman
Jeremy Strong
Jerry Rubin
John Carroll Lynch
David Dellinger
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
Bobby Seale
Alex Sharp
Rennie Davis

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A review by r96sk

8.0

Written by r96sk on Mar 13, 2021

Very well made, up until that ending anyway. It's not a bad conclusion, but man is it cringe-inducing. It seems they were going for an end to match <em>'A Few Good Men'</em>, which was also written by Aaron Sorkin of course. From the overly uplifting score, to the slow clap, to the freeze-frame. Per <a href="https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/film/a34187167/true-story-the-trial-of-the-chicago-7/">Esquire</a>, the scene is not even how it went down IRL either. I'm all for 'Hollywood endings', just less of the cheese please. The rest of <em>'The Trial of the Chicago 7'</em> is, though, ver...