The Star Chamber (1983)
Directed by Peter Hyams
Genres - Thriller |
Sub-Genres - Paranoid Thriller |
Release Date - Aug 5, 1983 (USA - Unknown) |
Run Time - 109 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Fed up with watching vicious criminals walk on technicalities and loopholes, judge Michael Douglas accepts his older colleague Hal Holbrook's invitation to join "The Star Chamber." This sub-rosa organization consists of nine like-minded judges who endeavor to take the law into their own hands. Essentially, these are robed vigilantes, but Douglas joins them, determining that the end justifies the means. Before long, however, Douglas finds himself balking at sanctioning the murder of freed criminals -- and as a result becomes the target of the Star Chamber himself. Worth noting in the supporting cast of The Star Chamber are Diana Douglas, Michael Douglas' real-life mother, and Frances Bergen, widow of Edgar Bergen and mother of Candice Bergen.
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judge, assassination, justice, secret-society, scheme, vigilante, one-against-odds, expose [revelation], Judicial-system