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Legal Eagles

5.7

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Original title

Legal Eagles

Year

1986

Running time

114 min.

Country

United States

Director

Ivan Reitman

Screenwriter

Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr.. Story: Ivan Reitman, Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr.

Cast

Music

Elmer Bernstein

Cinematography

László Kovács, Bill Butler

Producer

Universal Pictures

Genre

Comedy. Romance. Mystery | Romantic Comedy. Courtroom Drama / Lawyers

Synopsis

Robert Redford, usually a pretty good judge of material, got snookered badly in Legal Eagles, an Ivan Reitman comedy which also stars Debra Winger and Daryl Hannah. Redford is a rising assistant D.A. who is prosecuting a woman (Hannah) for theft of a painting by her father. Before he knows what's hit him, he's involved romantically both with the defendant and with her scattered lawyer (Winger).

Critics' reviews

"The movie has so much stuff in it, it's top-heavy. The wonder is that so many scenes play as well as they do. (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"In a movie world jam-packed with teen-agers and computers and fantastic beings, it's refreshing to encounter a film that finds its laughs in the warmth and absurdities of adult interaction."

Miami Herald
"Novie lovers will want more of Winger and more Redford, both separately and together. If they had more scenes, their romance might seem more credible"

Gene Siskel: Chicago Tribune
"Loss of intrigue with a scattered plot involving art fraud and murder is made up for by an often witty, albeit lightweight dialog"

Variety Staff: Variety
"Though publicized as a breakthrough into adult comedy for Mr. Reitman, this new film is less a true adult comedy than a teen-age comedy populated by adults who are functioning in an adult world"

Vincent Canby: The New York Times
"It's all plot, and the plot is all holes; it's not just that it doesn't add up right - most of the episodes don't quite make sense."

Pauline Kael: The New Yorker
"The likeable veneer of the film never threatens to evaporate, which is both a good and a bad thing; the comedy is plentiful but the dark laughs are never quite dark enough, given the subject matter"

William Thomas: Empire
"While the picture falls well short of the Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn comedies it seeks to emulate, it's slick and good-looking enough to while away a few undemanding hours"

Neil Smith: BBC

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User history

Legal Eagles

1986

Ivan Reitman

5.7

(3,699)