Find Me Guilty
by Sidney Lumet
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Actor: Alex Rocco, Frank Pietrangolare, Peter Dinklage, Ron Silver, Vin DieselDirector: Sidney Lumet
Brand: DIESEL,VIN
Writer: Sidney Lumet
Producer: Bob DeBrino
Producer: Bob Yari
Producer: Ernst-August Schnieder
Producer: Frank Digiacomo
Writer: Robert J. McCrea
Writer: T.J. Mancini
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 125 minutes
Published: 2006-06-01
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-27
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Find Me Guilty
Movie Review: Remarkably subtle acting-Vin Diesel
Summary: 5 Stars
Having only recently become aware of Vin Diesel from his action movies, I found more subtlety in his acting than I expected in formula science fiction. I just watched Find Me Guilty last night. I have to say, if there is a newly constructed 9th Circle of Hollywood Hell, it must be occupied by fine actors who are subsequently type cast into shallow oblivion by the Great Hollywood Star Making Machine--or perhaps that is being too harsh. After all, Hollywood has to make a buck and they dish what they think The Public wants--with tremendous risks as private equity firms investing in the movie biz have learned time and again, Little changed since the days of Roman bread and circuses.
Diesel carries his role in Find Me Guilty with total ability, is deft at emotional tone and timing, is utterly authentic in his character.
I have spent a fair number of hours in court, and except for the necessarily clipped versions of what usually takes place in opening and closing statements, the highlights of court drama were entirely credible.
If there was ever an actor who could carry the lead in On The Waterfront, or Death of a Salesman, both quintessential tests of an actor in revealing authentic human vulnerabilities, Vin Diesel is that actor.
Artistically what he needs now more than anything is another go with the same deft writing team who pulled together Find Me Guilty, a script focusing on Spielberg's loyalty to family and a more restrained but unambiguous, non-ironic ending to a good tale without driving him into another running scene from the Riddick series--in other words, a film that would carry him into his rightful place among greats in the Pantheon of Film, but alas, the average public would probably have nothing to do with it--his career would be mauled and millions would be lost. Many an actor has fallen on his or her sword trying to reach deeper within themselves in roles that move beyond the genre which our popular masses are capable of following. If he does not risk it, no blame, he has given us a fine window on his skills and his taste for powerful mythic conflict.
But...people--the Public-- can surprise you, as all those trial counsel in the movie agree, stunner jury verdicts can elate or devastate with tremendous surprise. Diesel just may be able to go from film wrap to download and the ether viral great beyond without squeezing through the needle's eye of butts-in-the-chairs public theater.
Or so we might hope. Enough of the chewing gum on the shoes and coughers behind us. We can make our own popcorn and drink and pause the movie to answer nature in a facility whose population is limited to our kin and friends. Getting gouged for the bricks and morter overhead of a public movie theater experience is something I generally avoid. Welcome to the Future.
But I digress.
Superb movie, superb acting by Diesel and shame on Hollywood for not giving this man his proper serious recognition as an actor. I have to wonder if The High Art Hollywood Clique feels threatened by Diesel's capabilities and the types of roles he finds comfortable.
Summary of Find Me Guilty
From five-time Oscar®-nominee Sidney Lumet (Serpico, Network, Dog Day Afternoon) comes the most hysterically funny testament to bad courtroom behavior since My Cousin Vinny! Vin Diesel (Saving Private Ryan) "gives a sensational performance" (The New York Times) in the true story of the most remarkable criminal trial in US history. Find Me Guilty proves beyond a reasonable doubt that justice has a strange sense of humor!When police arrest twenty members of the Lucchese crime family, the authorities offer Jackie Dee DiNorscio (Diesel) a bargain: a shortened prison term if he'll testify against his own. But the wisecracking DiNorscio has other ideas. Refusing to cooperate, he decides to defend himself at his own trial... and proceeds to turn the courtroom upside-down in a hilarious fight that culminates in one of the most shocking verdicts in judicial history!
Vin Diesel gives his best performance to date in Sidney Lumet's Find Me Guilty, a courtroom comedy-drama (based on the true story of Mafia soldier "Fat Jack" DiNorscio) about the longest criminal trial in U.S. history. Diesel plays Giacomo "Jackie Dee" DiNorscio, a loyal member of New Jersey's notorious Lucchese crime family, who's already serving a 30-year jail term when he's offered an opportunity to shorten his sentence if he agrees to testify against many of his closest friends. He refuses, choosing instead to defend himself in a 21-month courtroom trial that involves 20 other Mafia members, each with their own defense attorney, all brought to trial on 76 charges ranging from criminal conspiracy to narcotics trafficking. As the lead defense attorney (Peter Dinklage) and prosecutor (Linus Roache) guide the trial through a maze of legal triumphs and setbacks, Lumet (still going strong at age 81) turns this goombah gab-fest into the kind of edgy New York comedy that only he could direct, drawing heavily on his experience with such courtroom classics as The Verdict and 12 Angry Men. And while he's filled the screen with a marvelous supporting cast including Alex Rocco, Ron Silver (as the no-nonsense judge) and Annabella Sciorra, Lumet can't quite overcome the confined, theatrical nature of the material, much of it drawn directly from actual courtroom transcripts. Find Me Guilty lacks the dramatic impact of The Verdict, favoring instead the rich absurdity of the DiNorscio case and its equally outrageous outcome after the jury's surprisingly brief deliberation. This is comfortable territory for Lumet, and he brings out the best in his extensive cast ? especially Diesel, who walks a fine line between courtroom shenanigans and fierce loyalty to his criminal clan.--Jeff Shannon
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