Find Me Guilty
The movie centers on mobster Giacomo 'Jackie' DiNorscio, who faces a series of charges even though he has a prior 30-year conviction, but he decides to defend himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.
25 July 1962, New York City, New York, USA
27 October 1935, Brooklyn, New York, USA
28 May 1958, New York, USA
16 August 1963, Rockville Center, New York, USA
29 March 1960, Wethersfield, Connecticut, USA
29 February 1936, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
8 March 1963, San Antonio, Texas, USA
30 January 1943, Everett, Massachusetts, USA
8 November 1954, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
25 March 1976, Bronx, New York, USA
September 19, 1986 in Belleville, New Jersey, USA
19 April 1976, Brooklyn, New York, USA
12 August 1964, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1948, New York City, New York, USA
May 04, 2007
Could not be more relevant at a repressive time in US history when the erosion and abuse of civil rights of those presumed guilty is nearly as big an issue as the plight of the innocent.
March 31, 2006
If you didn't know you were watching Vin Diesel in Find Me Guilty, you wouldn't know you were watching Vin Diesel. And that's a compliment.
March 25, 2006
As Vin Diesel plays him in a likable, image-adjusting turn -- prosthetically fat, thick of Jersey accent -- Jackie (who died in 2004) was about as sweet as a career criminal can be.
March 01, 2007
Manages to crackle along in lively fits and starts of nasty profanity and very bad but all too credible behavior.
April 20, 2009
If watching a jury disregard mountains of damning evidence in favor of a charismatic gangster who calls himself a "gagster" seems a morally challenging proposition, well that's all part of the bargain in Lumet's topical drama.
March 31, 2006
It's hard to do anything in court that hasn't been done before. It's a static situation, and points are scored in tiny increments. No big witness-stand breakdowns, no tearful confessions. Thus, boredom creeps in.
March 29, 2006
[Lumet's] crowning masterpiece.
July 10, 2007
What on the surface seems like a regular court drama with a little humor thrown in for good measure actually works as a wicked satire on the American judicial system.
December 30, 2006
Lumet orchestrates the machinations with the confidence of a master, but even he cannot quite manage to sustain the interest for the protracted arguments to run their course.
March 25, 2006
This movie by its nature is not thrilling, but it is very genuinely interesting, and that is rare.
January 12, 2007
Vin Diesel gives a perfect performance.
March 25, 2006
This may be the most Brechtian thing Lumet has ever done -- a movie that repeatedly challenges us to think and then to reconsider.
