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.
Elenco: Gene Hackman , Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio , Colin Friels , Joanna Merlin , Laurence Fishburne , Donald Moffat , Jan Rubeš , Matt Clark , Fred Dalton Thompson , Jonathan Silverman , Joan McMurtrey , Anne Ramsay , David Byron , Tim Hopper , Robert David Hall , Wood Moy , Dan Hicks .