Plot
Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, his claim to conscientious objector status led to a controversial legal battle that rattled the U.S. judicial system right up to the highest court in the land.
Cast
Christopher Plummer
John Marshall Harlan
Frank Langella
Chief Justice Warren Burger
Ed Begley Jr.
Justice Harry Blackmun
Peter Gerety
William Brennan
Barry Levinson
Justice Potter Stewart
John Bedford Lloyd
Byron 'Whizzer' White
Fritz Weaver
Hugo Black
Harris Yulin
William O. Douglas
Danny Glover
Justice Thurgood Marshall
Benjamin Walker
Kevin Kennedy
Pablo Schreiber
Covert Becker
Ben Steinfeld
Sam Edelstein
Crew
Stephen Frears
Director
Shawn Slovo
Writer
George Fenton
Original Music Composer
Jim Denault
Director of Photography
Scott Ferguson
Producer
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