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The Judge

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The Judge	comment	The Judge is a 2014 legal drama film directed by David Dobkin (Wedding Crashers), starring Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall.Hank Palmer (Downey) is a successful defense attorney who has received news that his mother has passed, and returns to his hometown of Carlinville, Indiana to attend the funeral. Once he arrives, he reunites with several members of his family, including older brother Glen (Vincent D'Onofrio), younger brother Dale (Jeremy Strong), and his father, local judge Joseph Palmer (Duvall), with whom Hank doesn't have a very good relationship.Although Hank decides to leave due to the friction between himself and Joseph, he is forced to remain in town when it's revealed that Joseph was involved in a fatal hit-and-run involving a victim he previously ruled on during a court case. Hank decides to defend his father in court after the latter's initial choice for attorney proves disastrous, and the younger Palmer faces tough prosecutor Dwight Dickham (Billy Bob Thornton), who is pushing for a first-degree murder charge. At the same time, Hank reconnects with his family and his estranged girlfriend Sam (Vera Farmiga), whom he abandoned twenty years earlier and wishes to make amends with.The film was the first project released under Downey's production company (which he founded with his wife Susan), Team Downey. It received mixed reviews upon release.
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The Judge / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
The Judge / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Hank to his father in his teenage years. He later receives validation after his father is released from jail. Joseph later makes amends with his son before dying in a fishing boat.
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The Judge / int_19fe3478	type	Daddy's Girl
The Judge / int_19fe3478	comment	Daddy's Girl: Hank's daughter Lauren.
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The Judge / int_1badfb3a	type	The Heart
The Judge / int_1badfb3a	comment	The Heart: Dale, Hank's mentally challenged younger brother. He even unknowingly causes Hank to stay.
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The Judge / int_2882c8c1	type	Career-Ending Injury
The Judge / int_2882c8c1	comment	Career-Ending Injury: Hank's brother Glen used to play baseball before a car crash ended his career.
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The Judge / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
The Judge / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Hank's wife accuses him of being this and used it to justify having affairs. This royally pisses Hank off because he's shown to be an attentive and loving father who can't spend as much time with his daughter as he wants due to his work.
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The Judge / int_337a0f4	type	TrailersAlwaysLie
The Judge / int_337a0f4	comment	Trailers Always Lie: The movie was promoted as a suspense thriller. However, it's just a Slice of Life film about a man returning home and dealing with unresolved issues with family and a love interest. Some critics took it personally.
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The Judge / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Judge / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Joseph isn't convicted of first-degree murder, but he is convicted of manslaughter. After being let out on compassionate grounds, he dies six months later of cancer with Hank by his side.
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The Judge / int_470442c8	type	I'll Be in My Bunk
The Judge / int_470442c8	comment	I'll Be in My Bunk: Sam hits on Hank, but then chastises him for thinking she wanted anything more than a one-night stand and claims that she will instead go home to enact the trope.
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The Judge / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Judge / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Both Hank and Joseph. Like Father, Like Son, indeed.
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The Judge / int_47b21ca6	type	Stress Vomit
The Judge / int_47b21ca6	comment	Stress Vomit: C.P. does this. Three times. The third time, Hank ends up doing it too.
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The Judge / int_593d7cbe	type	Designated Villain
The Judge / int_593d7cbe	comment	Designated Villain: Dwight Dickham does his very best to put Joseph in jail, because that's his job as a prosecutor. He's accused of acting on a personal vendetta against Joseph, but he insists that's ridiculous, as he's simply trying the case based on the facts. He's ultimately successful in having Joseph convicted, but later signs off on his compassionate release so he doesn't have to die in prison.
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The Judge / int_5bca5a56	type	Surprise Incest
The Judge / int_5bca5a56	comment	Surprise Incest: Hank and Carla make out shortly after they meet. He learns afterward that she's his ex-girlfriend's daughter, was born nine months after they broke up, and doesn't know who her father is. Naturally, Hank panics, thinking she's his daughter. As it turns out, his brother had hooked up with his ex just after they broke up, making Carla his niece.
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The Judge / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
The Judge / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: After the trial ends and Joseph refuses to acknowledge him, Hank breaks down in tears.
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The Judge / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Judge / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: As is typical with the Amoral Attorney trope, Hank gets a lot of guff for helping guilty people to go free. He's quick to retort that it's the prosecutor's job to prove his clients guilty, and it's their fault if they can't. Defending his client to the best of his ability is not only his job, but also his ethical duty.
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The Judge / int_6b18b774	type	"What Now?" Ending
The Judge / int_6b18b774	comment	"What Now?" Ending: The film ends with Hank deliberating whether to take up his father's job as a judge or go back to Chicago.
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The Judge / int_6b3c357e	type	Ivy League for Everyone
The Judge / int_6b3c357e	comment	Ivy League for Everyone: Hank graduated from Northwestern University’s law school, one of the most prestigious law schools in the United States.
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The Judge / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
The Judge / int_6ee10e0	comment	My Greatest Failure: Joseph showing lenience to Mark Blackwell after he threatened his girlfriend. If he hadn't given him the minimum sentence, he wouldn't have been free to murder her later.
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The Judge / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
The Judge / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Hank brings up the subject of his father's chemotherapy during the trial, which leads his father to state that he has no son. He later mellows out, though.
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The Judge / int_7cd98af5	type	Potty Failure
The Judge / int_7cd98af5	comment	Potty Failure: Hank discovers that Joseph's medication has caused memory loss and incontinence, and he has to clean his father up in one scene.
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The Judge / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Judge / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Hank's ex-wife Lisa gives him one near the beginning of the film, as she rails at him for being so wrapped up in work that he doesn't have any idea how to be a parent.
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The Judge / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Judge / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Several, but notable is Joseph's first scene, where he's presiding over a child support hearing. When the guy protests he's broke and unemployed, Joseph confiscates his new truck, and shrugs off his protests with a short but important speech about the law. Then he tells the ex-wife exactly who to talk to at the dealership when she sells it back, and then makes an off-hand comment about figuring out how pregnancy happens. This establishes almost every important part of his character in a single scene.
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The Judge / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Judge / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Mark Blackwell, an unrepentant killer whose last act was to mock Joseph, the judge who indirectly allowed him to commit the murder in question.
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The Judge / int_95f2d65e	type	DefrostingIceKing
The Judge / int_95f2d65e	comment	Defrosting Ice King: Hank, who goes from an uptight Amoral Attorney who doesn't care about his family to a compassionate man who helps his father and gets back in touch with who he was twenty years earlier.
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The Judge / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Judge / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Not outright said, but Dickham seems to feel bad for somewhat winning the case against Joseph, and ends up helping get Joseph out of prison early on compassionate release.
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The Judge / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Judge / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Hank. Would you expect anything less from Robert Downey Jr.?
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The Judge / int_b5b3599d	type	Amoral Attorney
The Judge / int_b5b3599d	comment	Amoral Attorney: Hank is like this at the start of the movie. He remarks he respects the law just fine, but he isn't "in awe of it" or "encumbered by it," plus "Innocent people can't afford me."
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The Judge / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
The Judge / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Dwight Dickham
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The Judge / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Judge / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: When flirting with small-town girl Carla, Hank jokes about her "incest-free bloodline". After making out with her, he finds out she's the daughter of his old girlfriend, and may be his daughter. Turns out, she's his niece.
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The Judge / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
The Judge / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: Dickham's retractable metal water cup, which sports a pin-up girl on the lid. He opens it with a flick of his wrist and a great THWANG sound.
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The Judge / int_f1d692eb	type	Stern Old Judge
The Judge / int_f1d692eb	comment	Stern Old Judge: Joseph is the older, gruff type. At the end, it's strongly hinted that Hank will take his dad's place as the town's judge, but he doesn't fit the trope's character type.
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