A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain promotion, she must defend an auto manufacturer against charges that their explosion-prone station wagons are unsafe. As her mother begs for peace, Maggie takes on her dad in a trial that turns increasingly personal and nasty.

• Interscope Communications
• 20th Century Fox
• Gene Hackman
• Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
• Colin Friels
• Joanna Merlin
• Laurence Fishburne
• Donald Moffat
• Jan Rubeš
• Matt Clark