Movie #1484 "Marshall" was a stylish film --- nice look, good idea for a film --- it was interesting to me to be in the world of Thurgood Marshall for a few months. He's moving his way up , with one Supreme Court ruling under his belt, and he's now being sent to defend blacks who are innocent but in jail for a wrongdoing they didn't commit -- he goes to the big cases in the present in the film, and in some instances, like this, he needs a shill (Josh Gad, a jewish lawyer with very little experience in a rape trial) to speak for him in the court because he is not allowed to speak in his client's defense. (He has a reputation for winning most of his cases. The Josh Gad character has to learn quite quickly how to act in this kind of trial and really take it all the way to the end when Marshall has to leave because his wife lost the baby she was carrying. I never got pulled in emotionally --- some dialogue was stilted, the secondary people seemed staged, and the story was predictable, but Chaz Boseman and Sterling K Brown (from "This is us") are so good, it was hard to not watch them work their way through this historical biopic of the future first black on the supreme court. I'd give it 3.8 out of 5.
"MARSHALL" 2017 PG-13 1 HOUR AND 58 MINS.
Recounting an early case of attorney Thurgood Marshall -- who would later become the first African-American Supreme Court justice -- this riveting drama depicts his defense of a black chauffeur accused of sexual assault.
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