The Judge: Heated arguments scene at the police station l

Hank Palmer (Robert Downey Jr.) is one of the best defense attorneys in Chicago. He's in the bathroom at the courthouse when the prosecuting attorney Mike Kattan (David Krumholtz) questions his ethics and the fact that he defends so many guilty people. Hank tells him that innocent people can't afford him. Kattan asks how he sleeps at night. Hank tells him, he sleeps in a beautiful house with a smoking hot wife.
At the mom's funeral, the Judge is warm and friendly to everyone except Hank. They don't get along at all. They go to the cemetery and bury the mom.
At the bar, locals start to give Glen shit because they've all had poor experiences in the Judge's courtroom. Glen is about to fight them when Hank steps in and through fast talking shames the locals into leaving. This impresses young bartender Carla (Leighton Meester) who starts making out with Hank later that night.
Hank asks Dale about the Judge's condition. Dale says that he is fine and keeps a routine where he goes and plays Chess with Doc Morris (Denis O'Hare) every week. Hank remembers his dad doesn't play Chess so he asks if Dale has any footage of that. He does. They look at the film and we find out that the Judge is getting some sort of medical treatment.
Hank goes to meet with Doc Morris and finds out that his dad has Cancer and has been getting chemotherapy even though they caught it too late. Hank asks what the side effects are and finds out that they include memory loss.
The Judge wants to take the stand during his case, but Hank doesn't want him to. The Judge says that only guilty people refuse to defend themselves. They talk about the best lawyers they've ever seen. Hank tells the Judge about one he respected and the Judge tells Hank about one who had integrity, clearly something he feels his son lacks. Hank and the Judge have a huge fight.
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The jury deliberates. They come back with a not guilty verdict to murder, but guilty to manslaughter. He's sentenced to four years in prison.
Seven months later, the Judge is released from prison on parole. Hank picks him up. They go fishing. The Judge tells him that the reason he was hard on Hank for so many years is because while he saw Hank in Blackwell, he also saw Blackwell in Hank and worried that if he hadn't been tough on Hank, he wouldn't have turned out to be the man he is today. The Judge tells him that before when Hank asked him who the best lawyer he ever saw was, he was wrong. The best lawyer he ever saw was Hank. Hank finally gets his dad's approval. Then the Judge dies in the fishing boat.
After the Judge's funeral, Hank goes into the courtroom where his dad sat for so many years. He spins his dad's chair seemingly contemplating.
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I remembered seeing this movie years ago and relating to it so deeply and funnily enough ended up in a very similar situation myself as Hank in this movie. It's so difficult when you make it big to come home and feel like an outcast and then try to help only to be looked down upon or as if I'm the enemy.

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Sorry to hear that

[@gringostarr69]

I watched this month before my grandfather who raised me called and told he has a cancer and has (at least three months to live) This was 1,5 years ago. Well, I drove to him the same night. He was my idol took me to guitar lessons since I was 10 in conservatory here in Finland. My real dad told me that I'm not allowed to be a guitar player cause my grandfather was now passed away jazz drummer. Eventually I became a drummer, but back to the story. I took time out of work and came to help him. He had good days and bad days. He went to palliative care cause the cancer had spread all over and couldn't be healed anymore. He was "only" 80 years old. He was the man who thought me everything. From Hunting to musical theory to business, how to threat women and how to be a real man in my yester years.
In the hospital where you go to die I was beside him every day and spent many nights over. The nurses brought another bed to me to his room. I showered him every day when an accident happened and hold his hand till he took his last breath. I have a small family. My sister, his children and husband who live in England, and my grandmother who is dying now. I'm Finnish. Have some cousins but haven't talked them in more than 10 years
I related to this movie so much that I have watched it several times after it. I'm here at now my summer cottage where we used to do everything together, but now I'm the sole user and taking care of this place. It's 6 hours drive from where I live, but this is mine now and someone has to take care of it.
I tried to tell him 6 months before he got the diagnose to go to hospital cause he had lost weight and strenght, but he didn't. Should have pushed him more. Take care, we are sometimes the black sheep but don't care about it. Helped me..