Legal Eagles on AllMovie

After Ghostbusters, director Ivan Reitman came out with this comedy-drama-adventure in which pyrotechnics and car chases tend to vie with the story for center stage; imagine a kind of "Indiana Jones" meets the legal world. The plot concerns a young woman, Chelsea (Daryl Hannah), who has been charged with stealing a painting from a Manhattan art dealer. Her attorney Laura Kelly (Debra Winger) dramatically interrupts a major public appearance by D.A. Tom Logan (Robert Redford) in order to convince him there is more to this case than a stolen painting. As Logan begins to look into Chelsea's background, he discovers she witnessed a fire at her opulent home when she was only eight years old. Her father was an art collector and his paintings supposedly burnt in the conflagration. But how did this painting from his collection pop up for sale at a New York art gallery?