Aaron Sorkin stated to Vanity Fair in July 2020 that he first found out about the planned film during a visit to Steven Spielberg's home in 2006, specifying that Spielberg "told me he wanted to make a movie about the riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention and the trial that followed." He also added that he had no previous knowledge of these events, stating, "I left not knowing what the hell he was talking about."
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The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Music from the Netflix Film)
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- 1 CelesteHear My Dream 1:24
- 2 Daniel PembertonWe're Going to Chicago 6:18
- 3 Daniel PembertonThe Trial 4:39
- 4 Daniel PembertonConspiracy Office 1:13
- 5 Daniel PembertonMy Life 1:35
- 6 Daniel PembertonSequestering the Jury 1:18
- 7 Daniel PembertonMeet the Police 0:52
- 8 Daniel PembertonTake the Hill 6:17
- 9 Daniel PembertonRiot Aftermath 1:40
- 10 Daniel PembertonDon't Stand 2:19
- 11 Daniel PembertonStar Witness 2:31
- 12 Daniel PembertonMotion Denied 3:30
- 13 Daniel PembertonBlood on the Streets 7:02
- 14 Daniel PembertonTrial Day 151 3:11
- 15 Daniel PembertonStand Up (The Chicago 7) 3:41
- 16 CelesteHear My Voice 3:08
- 17 CelesteTake the Hill 3:21
The Trial of the Chicago 7
(2020)28
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Runtime | 2 hr 9 min |
Budget | $35 000 000 |
Premiere: World | $24 357 October 1, 2020 |
Box Office – Budget | – $34 975 643 |
Premiere: USA | September 25, 2020 |
Digital: World | October 16, 2020 |
Parental Advisory | Profanity, Violence & Gore, ... |
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Critique: 61
This is not a documentary; it’s a dramatization of events that resonates with great power while containing essential truths, and it&rsqu...
[I]t’s a thoroughly satisfying drama whose emotional climax hinges on an implied possessive pronoun, of all things.
"The Trial of the Chicago 7," smoothly entertaining as it is, may also elude clear consensus.
This film is one of those exhilarating instances when Sorkin finds a context in which all of his well-established impulses that can be so anno...
"The Trial of the Chicago 7" isn’t good, but I’d recommend it anyway.
Sorkin’s winks are so shameless that you can hear them flutter across your own living room, but that doesn’t make them unenjoyable, eit...
Somehow, the gross miscarriage of justice against innocent men has been made into a cracking good time.
To paraphrase Bob Dylan, the times are indeed a-changin', but Sorkin’s brand of sharp writing about politics, media, and culture hasn’t...
The Trial of the Chicago 7 is both a courtroom drama for the ages and an urgent shot across the bows.
Sorkin has made a movie that’s gripping, illuminating and trenchant, as erudite as his best work and always grounded first and foremost...
By the end, I had given myself over to the Hollywood veneer. Chicago 7 is a particularly shiny rendering of history, but Sorkin wisely pl...
Similar to [Sorkin’s] approach to Molly’s Game, dialogue supersedes other modes of conveying a story. This very intellectual reint...
The fall awards season roars in with this cinema powder keg. Expect Oscar to sprinkle gold dust on Aaron Sorkin and a gangbusters cast for making t...
There are such wonderful individual moments and beats in that just watching it as an acting exercise makes it worthwhile.
The filmmaker crafts an entertaining, immersive and ultimately optimistic spectacle that never forgets, especially at its ending, that humanity sho...
[Sorkin] has taken "the most important trial of your lifetime" and shoehorned it into a conventional Sorkin-esque mold, one in which complicat...
There’s a fine line between topicality and self-aggrandizing opportunism, and for all of the talent on display, The Trial of the Chicago...
The Trial of the Chicago 7 feels outright outlandish at times; more than unrealistic, it can feel as far afield from history as an episod...
Sorkin can write, we all know this…there’s an interesting drama in here, with a star-studded cast, but I’m not as knocked out as s...
A look back at rabble-rousers from another era won’t change the world, but "Chicago 7" is a solid tribute to a few men who realized...
It has all the moral force of someone who spends their days writing sarcastic replies to Trump’s tweets, all the while he tears down democrac...
Sorkin’s film is sometimes eloquent, and sustained for the most part by his flair for hyperverbal entertainment. Yet it also diminishes its a...
The film is not meant to be a documentary, though, and naturally takes creative license, keeping the essence of the real life events…
Aaron Sorkin’s "The Trial of the Chicago 7" is the rare drama about the 1960s that’s powerful and authentic and moving enough to f...
Sorkin’s writing may be better served by a director who can bring a new set of perspectives and dynamics to the work, rather than simply...
It’s talky and clumsy, alternating between self-importance and clowning. But it’s also not a movie that can be easily shaken off...
The Trial of the Chicago 7 might be the ultimate movie about how to fight the far right – an artistic testament to pragmatism and a...
The Trial Of The Chicago 7 wants to bottle the revolutionary spirit of its setting-the take-to-the-streets idealism of the '60s-but its s...
In his screenplay, Sorkin does a masterful job of picking through months of testimony to find significant exchanges that speak a universal lan...
The Trial of the Chicago 7 details events that happened more than 50 years ago. The time to look away is never.
It’s maybe a too little rosy, considering all that’s going on, but The Trial of the Chicago 7 captures the messiness of...
Sorkin has no plan for the camera beyond pointing it at his stars, but he lets their performances grow large and moreish.
Barn-burning speeches are a lot more rousing when the barn in question is rotted enough to require immediate burning to the ground.
Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 may not be the squarest film ever made about 1960s radicalism… Still, this loose "true&nb...
If anyone was born to make a film about the infamous federal trial surrounding the protests outside the 1968 Democratic National Conventi...
For the most part, Sorkin’s solid – if squarely made and visually uninteresting – film is a valuable contribution to the disco...
The writing was a bit grandiose and self-important, a tendency that the movie’s writer-director, Aaron Sorkin, has turned into a style...
Much of the film’s appeal lies in its brilliantly snappy dialogue. Having said that, those who remain unconvinced by Sorkin’s particula...
This is a film that examines both the past and the present day; that plots a path on the common ground between them.
It represents the sanctification of a time and a people whose spirit Sorkin sees as our salvation.
Sorkin’s latest directorial offering is timely, engaging and undeniably thought-provoking. It is also spectacularly acted across the board.
When it clicks, it’s gangbusters, with Sorkin’s signature rat-a-tat dialogue bouncing between the actors like a pinball.
Chicago 7 is a crowdpleaser first and foremost, and in that regard it succeeds on almost every level… Just don’t expect it to be as...
Sacha Baron Cohen steals the show in Aaron Sorkin’s mostly entertaining, occasionally cheesy, totally timely take on a notorious US trial.
As with all things Sorkin, it takes liberties with the truth – this is not a film to watch in place of reading up on the history – but it...
A fiery condemnation of the police state and government overreach, this is both timely and timeless. Sorkin and a superb cast make legal proce...
Through a punch-the-air final act, Aaron Sorkin’s melodrama reassures us of the power of sticking to one’s beliefs
The movie is effective in spite of its foibles. It’s an ensemble piece that tells a complex story cleanly. And even its missteps hint as...
[A] remarkably relevant story, smartly told, but with certain blind spots and pitfalls: broad strokes, rhetorical grandstanding, the tendency to ov...
By reshaping this charged moment culled from somewhat recent American history in his own image, Sorkin has made The Trial of the Chicago 7&nbs...
While the film ends on something of a movie-of-the-week note, given the timing of its release as a current Department of Justice gins up...
Sorkin, who’s unmatched in his ability to write debates and speeches, manages to freshen up those old benches, robes and gavels.
[T]he compassionate, optimistic and indeed counterintuitive ending feels like the aspirational balm that we need right now.
It may be messy, but it’s fleet-footed and it means well, and in the way of any good caper flick it extols the virtue of breaking the law for...
"Trial" is so inherently compelling – and so directly germane to an America where the government labels cities "anarchist jurisdictions...
As it arrives on what Sorkin called "a collision course with history," it is both a cautionary tale and a guiding light out of the darkness.
Few celebrations of a radical impulse have been so conciliatory to bourgeois convention.
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I have seen with my own eyes examples of our illegitimate courts. And I am sincerely sure that a separate cauldron in hell has been prepared for such judges. But here, for the sake of drama, the judge was made simply inadequate, who twirled the democratic right on his own .. From this, the film is false a mile away, indignantly Translated to English
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A strong topical Sorkin court drama with a pulling emotional final scene. Cohen and Rylance are especially lovely. Cinema is academic: a reminiscence on the theme of "A Few Good Guys", one might say. Translated to English
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A good legal drama from Sorkin. As it should be – there is no completely innocent and completely guilty. The film holds well, probably will go to the Oscar, as it is close to the modern agenda) academicians love this) Translated to English
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God, what a powerful screenwriter Aaron Sorkin is. Disassemble the film into quotes and admire. A strong procedural drama with an amazing cast (Sacha Baron Cohen’s performance is a revelation for me. But I won’t watch Borat anyway) Translated to English
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A well-made court drama from a venerable screenwriter and part-time director. Although the events in the film are already half a century old, their relevance has not dried up over the years. The movie is serious, but there was a place for humor. Translated to English
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A wonderful court drama that has three main elements in abundance: good direction, script, and actors playing charismatic characters. And, most importantly, it looks great against the backdrop of the current protest movement in the world and even gives some food for thought. Translated to English
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Watched the movie because of Sorkin. Not only is the script his, but also the direction. He knows how to make exciting stories out of documentaries. And he succeeded again. Almost 2 hours in the courtroom flew by unnoticed (the trial lasted almost a year). And the actors coped brilliantly Translated to English
Screenwriter Alan Sorkin looks better to me than director Sorkin, who, as if he himself does not believe in what he is shooting, and therefore tries here and there to strengthen, increase the effect that goes sideways to the picture. Translated to English
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Great drama, deep dialogue, great acting, and a story that Sorkin was able to convey incredibly well. Almost all the time I sat in front of the screen and could not tear myself away. Oh, and an epic ending. But I won’t take sides Translated to English
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Here, it seems, what can the US judicial system of the late 60s have in common with the realities of today’s Russia? It turns out that there are so many parallels to offensive bitterness. The drama is the strongest, Sorkin and Co. are handsome. Translated to English
A gorgeously shot film about the lawlessness in the American justice system of the 60s, the problems of which continue to this day and not only in the United States. Very on topic in 2020. Translated to English
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A revolution of people with an idea and those who pull the strings of state structures, bravo! Not without false media, gags in the face of the state. Thanks to the progress that today you can tell the truth on the media platforms, though not without prosecution according to the laws written on the stump. Translated to English
A good film about how people who organized an unauthorized rally are judged, and there is an instruction from the president to put them in jail. The parallels with our reality are frightening. After 60 years, I’m waiting for a remake about the events in the Russian Federation and Belarus. Translated to English
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Well done, but too mechanical. The films that Sorkin shoots himself are like mechanical automata, polished to a shine, where everything is 100% subordinate to the text, and instead of living people there are clockwork puppets. Beautiful, but Fincher and Boyle shot better from his scripts. Translated to English
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In fact, I’m surprised that with such a budget, they could put together a cool cast of actors, and even make extras with riots spectacular + inserts from the chronicle of those years. A good film about the trial, and even a true story. Translated to English
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A surprisingly exciting conversational movie, although when watching it, I couldn’t get rid of the idea that the story was simply pulled out of the bins in order to shake public moods in the turbulent 2020. Translated to English
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A strong and well-coordinated court drama about things much more important than the shown court… (Apart from the fact that the film itself is probably part of political intrigues, creating a certain public opinion in the current turbulent pre-election time!) Translated to English
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Throughout the film, there was a feeling that the author was manipulating events, like this evil unfair judge, he twists the plot so that the viewer clearly understands who is the villain and who is the hero. It turns out some kind of court drama for the little ones. Translated to English
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The film is cool, but a little tightened, at the end you start to get tired. Translated to English
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Good. I recommend. I especially confess Sasha Baron))) And the ending personally surprised me and satisfied me))) Translated to English
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I liked how the director managed to manage my feelings even in the absence of suspense: I perceived each character as the director wanted. A chic acting performance in its entirety, but especially from Sasha Cohen and Mark Rylance. It was very difficult to watch the original. Translated to English
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Based on real events. "The whole world is watching!" – demonstrators chanted at the courthouse. At the end, I wanted to stand up and clap along with everyone in the courtroom. Translated to English
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An amazing drama with an equally amazing cast. Powerful script and dialogues that leave an intellectual aftertaste for a long time. The authors did a great job of capturing the era. One of the best films of this year. Translated to English
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A story about what tricks the government went to in order to shut up opponents of a war that was beneficial to them. The topicality, the brilliant dialogue, the acting, and the scathing critique of militarism put this film on my list of favorites despite the simple direction. Outstanding cinema. 9/10 Translated to English