The Verdict

After credits establishing his loneliness and alcoholism, Paul Newman in his Academy Award-nominated role as lawyer Frank Galvin, making disreputable rounds in Boston, opening Sidney Lumet’s The Verdict, 1982, from David Mamet’s screenplay based on Barry Reed’s novel.

Alcoholic Boston lawyer Frank (Paul Newman) keeping up appearances, pretending he has a secretary, has his first meeting with client Sally (Roxanne Hart, joined by her husband, James Handy), whose medical malpractice case has been given to him by worried friends, in Sidney Lumet’s The Verdict, 1982.

Not quite a single take but reminiscent of the first film (12 Angry Men, 1957) by director Sidney Lumet, James Mason is introduced as Boston super lawyer Concannon, representing the archdiocese and hospital, in The Verdict, 1982, starring Paul Newman, from a David Mamet screenplay.

After seeing his brain-dead client, alcoholic Boston lawyer Frank (Paul Newman) finds he can’t take the malpractice settlement offered by the Catholic diocese that runs the hospital involved, then visits Mickey (Jack Warden), who gave him the case for an easy payday, in Sidney Lumet’s The Verdict, 1982.

Newly inspired to take his medical malpractice case to trial, alcoholic lawyer Frank (Paul Newman) dismisses Mickey (Jack Warden), who gave him the case so he could win an easy settlement, then pursues Laura (Charlotte Rampling), whom he met earlier in his favorite bar, in Sidney Lumet’s The Verdict, 1982.