Saturday, December 13, 2008
movies for law
I'm just wondering if any of you can recommend a movie that you think would be relevant for a law class. I could do a search, but would rather ask people. so far i have 12 angry men and one flew over the cuckoo's nest. anything about rules, breaking them, making them, interpreting them differently would be nice.
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Try "A Time To Kill". My mentor teacher used it for his law class. Just when the closing statement happened he turned it off and had his students do it instead. Just a thought.
CTV made a tv movie about the David Milgaard case a few years back. The Law 12 teacher at Spectrum has incorporated it into his lessons on the DNA database.
Well if you want a good movie for law you should try Denzel Washington in The Hurricane. It's about Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. He was a boxer who was wrongly imprisoned for murder. It also centers around the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence. I think it was a bunch of Canadians, so even better! There is also the movie Dead Man Walking with susan sarandon and sean penn. It raises important questions about the ethics of the death penalty versus the impact of crime on victims and their families and spirituality and forgiveness. There is also Philadelphia with Tom Hanks which is about a lawyer getting fired by his firm because they find out he has AIDS. There is also an older movie about the Nietzsche murder case in the 20's but I can't remember sorry. But if worse comes to worse and those don't work for your law 12 class you could always try Legally Blonde or hell even the Pauly Shore classic JURY DUTY!
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