David M. Russell

A high school outcast who lives in a trailer with his mother finally meets a friend. He wants to ask her if they can go the next step, but then sees her kissing another boy at a party. He runs home only to find his mother having sex with a drunk. He starts yelling, but is countered by the drunk when he suffocates him and makes him look like he hung himself. The scarecrow comes in when the boy's soul is pushed into it. He goes out for revenge.

社会派のコスタ＝ガヴラス監督が贈る法廷ドラマ。第二次大戦の戦争犯罪者として告発された弁護士が、汚名を晴らすべく娘とともに法廷に立つ。主人公の娘にジェシカ・ラング、その父にアーミン・ミューラー＝スタール。