Gingerbread Man, The

USA 1998, 114 minutes
Dir. Robert Altman
Rating: [M]
Genres: Suspense/Crime / Courtroom

Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Embeth Davidtz, Robert Duvall, Robert Downey Jnr.

Aroview: Script by the courtroom-obsessed John Grisham is here assigned to auteurist Robert Altman (THE PLAYER, SHORT CUTS), who manages to rule-out all jury summings-up and secret witnesses in a dark and spooky case of Southern-style duplicity, centring on morally-flawed lawyer Kenneth Branagh.

The winds of a gathering hurricane help thicken the atmosphere, as does some great work from Embeth Davitz, Robert Duvall and Robert Downey Jnr. (playing, appropriately, a drunk.)

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2 stars (Good Try) Branagh's accent puts you on the defensive straight away - we all know he's a British Shakespearean actor & not an American lawyer. The screenplay is a bit contrived but the main problem is the paper thin characters including Duvall's. ~Tubbs

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