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Synopsis:
Set
in
New
Orleans,
this
is
the
story
of
a
mysterious
man,
Nick
Easter
(Cusack)
who
gets
himself
on
the
jury
of
a
landmark
case
against
a
gun
manufacturer
in
an
attempt
to
influence
the
other
jury
members
to
vote
a
certain
way.
Meanwhile,
Easter's
girlfriend,
Marlee
(Weisz),
tries
to
swindle
the
attorneys
(Hackman,
Hoffman)
to
pay
millions
of
dollars
to
have
the
jury
return
a
verdict
friendly
to
their
clients.
The
case
involves
the
widow
of
a
man
killed
in
an
office
shooting
suing
the
gun
manufacturer
of
the
weapon
that
was
used,
under
the
claim
that
they
knew
the
store
that
sold
it
was
not
obeying
the
laws
about
firearm
sales.
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