Just Cause (1995)

Directors

Arne Glimcher

Cast

Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Capshaw, Scarlett Johansson, Blair Underwood, Ed Harris, Christopher Murray, Ruby Dee, Daniel J. Travanti, Ned Beatty, Liz Torres, Lynne Thigpen, Taral Hicks, Victor Slezak, Kevin McCarthy, Hope Lange, Chris Sarandon, George Plimpton, Colleen Fitzpatrick, Richard Liberty, Monte St. James, Gary Landon Mills, Tony Bolano, Kylie Delre

The story

Paul Armstrong, a liberal Harvard professor and former lawyer opposed to capital punishment, is persuaded by an elderly woman to go to Florida to investigate the conviction of her grandson Bobby Earl Ferguson for murder. Ferguson, a former Cornell University student, was convicted of raping and brutally murdering a young white girl named Joanie Shriver eight years prior. Ferguson tells Armstrong that he was physically and psychologically tortured by two police detectives to get a forced confession, but firmly states he is innocent.

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