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This is a common passage that many use to defend capital punishment.
By the time the sisters have become adults, they have had to squander most of their money to pay for lawyers to defend their property.
I believe the minimal sound design and cheap camera is a conscious decision rather than bad film making, I'd defend this, the film isn't any worse as a result, and it puts the spotlight on the cast, some of whom are really good (Kate Hardie- think that's her name, as the sarcastic drunk is spot-on) the one exception being David Baddiel, who should never be allowed to appear in serious stuff!! It's light, and we don't go for this kind of anatomising-of-relationship crap in this country, but if you don't have any real friends to go to a party with than you could do worse than to sit in and watch this.
Indian Directors have it tough, They have to compete with movies like "Laggan" where 11 henpecked,Castrated males defend their village and half of them are certifiable idiots.
Her overwhelming guilt prevented her from saying anything, what could she say to defend herself?
So why on earth would Daniel let himself be beaten and never fight back, not even to defend himself?
I mean he was not weak, he could at least try to defend himself when attacked but it just drove me mad to see him do nothing.
David Burton (Richard Chamberlain) plays the Defense Attorney assigned to defend the accused.
Although haunted by prophetic images from his own childhood and warned by modern signs given to him by an sympathetic Aboriginal named Chris Lee (David Gulpilil), Burton proceeds to defend the infraction as Tribal Law and therefore not subject to standard justice.
See for example the opening scenes, with the remote village in the Serbian mountains, with the low-tech devices that defend the integrity and way of life of the inhabitants, the nostalgia for the good days of the Communist rule, and the awakening of the young brat watching his nude teacher at the sounds of the Soviet hymn.
In one episode, he goes to find a monster in a sewer but when he first sees it, he runs to get out of there but is trapped so reluctantly, he must go back and defend himself.
Todd joins a peaceful ragtag community of self-reliant outcasts and has to defend this community when the new soldiers arrive for a field exercise.
I found it hard to get past the fact that 2 adults could not defend themselves against a little girl with basically no weapons at the end as stupid.
This picture is impossible to defend.
This film held my interest because of the great acting by Ling Bai,(Shen Yuelin),"Edmond",'05, who is a very educated Chinese lawyer and is placed in a very difficult situation in having to defend Richard Gere,(Jack Moore), "Unfaithful",'02, who is also another lawyer from the United States.
Everyone seems to want to take poor Mabel's wares until Chaplin arrives on the scene and appears to defend her at first.
Many a starry-eyed genre "critic" (read : devoted fan boy who would defend Doris to his dying breath) has likened Ms. Wishman to Ed Wood as both were blatantly incompetent movie makers whose sheer ineptitude in terms of both narrative coherence and production values somehow translated into a charm of their own.
Granted- I haven't seen this movie in quite some time- but I had to drop by and defend it's honor after reading some of the others reviews written about it.
He is an old pedophile and after having recaptured some existence through the dream of a girl in the first film, and having thus gotten a couple of boys in his bag through the desire of the girl for these boys, now he moves directly to the main target of his desire : he wants to possess a boy from inside, he is a gay pedophile and Jesse, to defend his sanity in this invasion, will have to react against this gayness that is imposed onto him and kill the boys and men Freddy desires.
What Ving Rhames did in prison to defend himself was amazing.
A young interracial couple have to defend themselves against the sneering and overly talkative psychopath Chambers (who enjoys ripping hearts out of people's torsos whilst they're watching), and they receive little to none help from an indecisive nurse and from the Sheriff, played by Robert Englund.
Joe Pesci plays Cousin Vincent "Vinny" Gambini, a upstart lawyer from New York who goes to Alabama to defend Billy(Ralph Macchio, "The Karate Kid" and "The Outsiders") and his friend from being executed for a murder they didn't commit.
Once again I am forced to defend a decent movie.
Campbell plays "Ash", an everyday, supermarket attendant who suddenly finds himself thrown into the unusual situation of having to defend himself against, zombies, evil spirits and even his own possessed hand, just in order to survive the night.
For him as well as for the audience it is clear again: Since he must defend Mrs. Paradine, he must try to prove that the valet is the murderer.
She makes him a gigantic scene, telling him, that his business is to defend herself, but not at the cost of accusing the valet.
I can't defend this immoral film about a crazy bunch of speeders, razing across America in pursuit of... fun!! There's nothing to it, but a great cast from the 80's and a lot of good-willed humour.
The mythos behind plot is very good, Russian mafia has this demon do there dirty work and the rainbow array of inmates have to defend their bars & mortar.
I mean that in the StarCraft type way... you get to fight on both sides, and conquer as well as defend.
If you want to see Barbarians storm a castle watch Kirk Douglas's The Vikings or Charlton Heston defend one in The Warlord, only if the infotainment commercial gets truly boring watch this.
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