Class Action (1991)

Nine times out of ten, I find that topics of discussion devolve into arguments. It seems most people I run into pick a side of a topic and treat it like it is the coming of the apocalypse. Either or, left or right, up or down, in or out. While many of life’s challenges have but two sides, they are many more where one can take a position out of many. But it seems that striking hard, early and loud, gives many the belief that their side is the only one. Even for lawyers like father and daughter, Jedediah Tucker Ward (Gene Hackman) and Maggie (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), who don’t, can’t or won’t discuss the vagaries of life even at Jed and Estelle’s (Joanna Merlin) anniversary party. All their rancor does is to further embed the wedge already driven between them.

Director:  Michael Apted Writer:  Carolyn Shelby; Christopher Ames; Samantha Shad Cast:
Gene Hackman -  Jedediah Tucker Ward Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio -  Maggie Ward Colin Friels -  Michael Grazier Joanna Merlin -  Estelle Ward Laurence Fishburne -  Nick Holbrook Donald Moffat -  Fred Quinn Jan Rubes -  Alexander Pavel Matt Clark -  Judge R. Symes		Fred Dalton Thompson -  Dr. George Getchell Jonathan Silverman -  Brian Joan McMurtrey -  Ann Anne Ramsay -  Deborah David Byron -  Carl Tim Hopper -  Howard ‘Howie’ Crayhill Robert David Hall -  Steven Kellen Wood Moy -  Mr. Minh