The Judge: “A Middle Child Syndrome Story” (Film Review)

RATING: 5/5
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Reviewed by Roghadal Saint-Michel

(Toronoto, Canada)

Directed by David Dobkin; starring Robert Downey, Jr., Robert Duvall and Vera Farmiga

A hotshot lawyer comes back to a small town where he grew up to attend his mothers' funeral, carrying with him loads of baggage from a past that is about to unfold.

A seemingly short planned weekend turned into an agonizing excursion of family drama that has now crept up on him when his father, a highly regarded judge gets involved in a murder.  Hank (Robert Downey, Jr.)  is now compelled to defend his father (Robert Duvall) when Hank realized that a small-time attorney would most likely lose the case and put his father in jail.

This courtroom drama has been told a gazillion times in Hollywood films. Of late, films like “On Golden Pond,” “August: Osage County,” “One True Thing” weaves a tale about children who are forced to confront their own demons by revisiting their relationship with their parents.