Find Me Guilty
Upon sending him to prison for the accusation of trading in the illegal drugs, Jackie DiNorscio, a young courageous and intelligent gangster, struggles against the abuse he receives from the prosecutor, who asks him to testify against his family in another case, in return to get his freedom, but he refuses his offer and makes his mind to defend himself.
6 January 1959, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
19 August 1949, Bronx, New York, USA
31 January 1943, Hawick, Borders, Scotland, UK
2 July 1946, New York City, New York, USA
6 April 1957, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
7 August 1949, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
8 June 1970, New York City, New York, USA
4 January 1918, New York City, New York, USA
April1976, Philippines
1 February 1964, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK
25 March 1976, Bronx, New York, USA
30 January 1943, Everett, Massachusetts, USA
March 01, 2007
Manages to crackle along in lively fits and starts of nasty profanity and very bad but all too credible behavior.
January 12, 2007
Vin Diesel gives a perfect performance.
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.
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.
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.
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 25, 2006
This movie by its nature is not thrilling, but it is very genuinely interesting, and that is rare.
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.
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 29, 2006
[Lumet's] crowning masterpiece.
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 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.
