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The Lincoln Lawyer is a 2011 American thriller film adapted from the novel of the same

name by Michael Connelly, starring Matthew McConaughey, Ryan Phillippe, illiam !"

Macy and Marisa #omei" #he film is directed by $rad %urman, with a screenplay written by &ohn

Romano"'()

Criminal defense attorney Mic*ey !aller +Matthew McConaughey operates around -os AngelesCounty out of his blac* -incoln #own Car " !aller has spent most of his career defending garden.

variety criminals, including a member of a local bi*er gang, until he lands the case of his career/ -ouis

Roulet +Ryan Phillippe, a $everly !ills playboy and son of real estate mogul Mary indsor +%rances

%isher , is accused of the brutal beating of prostitute Regina Campo +Margarita -evieva" !aller thin*s

Roulet is innocent, having simply been at the wrong place at the wrong time" !aller and his

investigator %ran* -evin +illiam !" Macy analye the pictures and evidence, notably the inuries the

victim sustained" t bears a similarity to a past case of !aller that landed a previous client, &esus

Martine +Michael Pe3a, in prison for life for murdering 4onna Renteria, despite repeatedly

proclaiming his innocence"

!aller has a daughter with his e5.wife, prosecutor Maggie McPherson +Marisa #omei, who has never

appreciated !aller6s efforts on behalf of guilty clients" !aller begins to wonder if he should have tried

harder on behalf of Martine instead of convincing him to plead guilty in e5change for avoiding

the death penalty" Martine becomes agitated when !aller visits him and shows him Roulet6s picture"

!aller begins to suspect that Roulet could be the real *iller in the Martine case, but bound

by attorney7client confidentiality rules, he cannot tell the police what he has learned" #hat night,

Roulet brea*s into !aller6s house, nonchalantly admits to committing the murder that put Martine in

prison, and ma*es veiled threats toward !aller6s family" -evin is shot to death after leaving

a voicemail message claiming that he has found Martine6s tic*et out of ail" #he murder weapon used

in -evin6s murder is a "22 caliber pistol and !aller finds his "22 Colt oodsman is missing from its

carrier bo5"

!aller is suspected of *illing -evin because the police discover that a Colt oodsman is registered to

!aller" !aller believes it was stolen by Roulet when he had bro*en into !aller6s home" 8bliged to do

his best for his client, guilty or not, !aller ruthlessly cross.e5amines the prostitute and discredits her in

the ury6s eyes" !owever, !aller sets up a *nown prison informant with information on the previous

murder" hen the informant testifies, !aller discredits him and the state later moves to dismiss all

charges in the current case" Roulet is set free, but the police then arrest him immediately for the

previous murder based upon testimony !aller had coa5ed out of the informant" !aller ac9uires

a :mith and esson pistol from his driver, ;arl +-aurence Mason, as a precaution against any

retribution he may face" Roulet is released due to lac* of evidence and sets out immediately to *ill!aller6s e5.wife and child, but !aller finds out in time to get them out of the house"

Roulet moc*ingly tells !aller that he will not be able to guard his family this way every day" &ust then, a

group of bi*ers whom !aller has previously represented starts bashing Roulet6s Maserati and they

brutally beat Roulet" !aller gets a call from Maggie that a par*ing tic*et was issued to Roulet near the

house of the previous murder victim, strong evidence against Roulet in his pending murder trial that

will support Martine6s release"


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Roulet" As !aller rides off to his ne5t case, he ta*es the bi*er gangpro bono because of their previous

help"

Matthew McConaughey stars in this legal thriller as a low.rent defense attorney named Mic*ey !aller" Most of the

time, Mic*ey barely *eeps his head above water, representing low.life clients and wor*ing out of the bac* of his

car" !e thin*s he6s landed the case of a lifetime when he6s hired to defend a rich playboy +Ryan Phillippe who

stands accused of rape and attempted murder, and eagerly accepts his new client and the massive payoff that6s

sure to come with him" $ut Mic*ey soon discoversthat he6s become ensnared in a twisted plot where no fee in the

world is high enough to pay for the deadly wor*load, and his only hope of survival may ust lay in his own s*ills as

a long.practiced double.crosser

Mickey Haller (Matthew McConaughey) is a Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back

of his Lincoln sedan. Haller has spent most of his career defending garden-variety criminals, until he lands the

case of his career: defending Louis Roulet (Ryan Phillippe), a Beverly Hills playboy accused of rape and

attempted murder. But the seemingly straightforward case suddenly develops into a deadly game of survival for

Haller.

Summary: Mic*ey !aller is a -os Angeles criminal defense attorney who operates out of the bac* of his -incoln

Continental sedan" !aller has spent most of his career defending garden.variety criminals, until he lands the case of a

lifetime/ defending a $everly !ills playboy accused of murder" $ut the seemingly straightforward case suddenly

develops into a deadly game of survival for !aller" =#he -incoln -awyer= is based on the best.selling Michael Connelly

novel"

#he novel

#his >1 bestselling legal thriller from Michael Connelly is a stunning display of novelistic mastery .

as human, as gripping, and as whiplash.surprising as any novel yet from the writer Publishers

Weekly has called =today6s 4ostoevs*y of crime literature"=

Mic*ey !aller is a -incoln -awyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the bac*seat

of his -incoln #own Car, traveling between the far.flung courthouses of -os Angeles to defend

clients of every *ind" $i*ers, con artists, drun* drivers, drug dealers . they6re all on Mic*ey !aller6s

client list" %or him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence, it6s about negotiation and

manipulation" :ometimes it6s even about ustice"

A $everly !ills playboy arrested for attac*ing a woman he pic*ed up in a bar chooses !aller to

defend him, and Mic*ey has his first high.paying client in years" t is a defense attorney6s dream,

what they call a franchise case" And as the evidence stac*s up, !aller comes to believe this may

be the easiest case of his career" #hen someone close to him is murdered and !aller discoversthat his search for innocence has brought him face.to.face with evil as pure as a flame" #o

escape without being burned, he must deploy every tactic, feint, and instinct in his arsenal . this

time to save his own life"

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8P?

I like movies about smart guys who are wise asses, and think their way out of tangles

with criminals. I like courtroom scenes. I like big old cars. I like “The Lincoln Lawyer”

because it involves all three, and because it matches Matthew McConaughey with a

first-rate supporting cast, while so many thrillers these days are about a lone herosurrounded by special effects. eople have words they actually say in this movie. !fter

“Battle: Los Angeles,” that is a great relief.

Let"s start with the big old car. It"s a Lincoln, and a lawyer named #ick $aller%#c&onaughey' does most of his work out of the back seat. !pparently he drove it

himself until he was socked with a ()I* given how much he drinks in the film, it"s

ama+ing he remembered where he parked it. ow he has a chauffeur %Laurence

Mason' who ferries him around to the Los !ngeles dealers, hookers, bagmen and

low-lifes who are his clientele. #ick"s specialty is getting people off, sometimes in a

perfectly legal way.

There were decades in the movies when heroes drove new cars, unless it was a period

picture. &ar makers used to pay for product placement. e saw #ustangs, T/s,&hargers. 0ut in recent years, action and thriller heroes have driven mostly classiccars, or oddballs like $ummers. The reason for this is obvious1 #odern cars all look

mostly the same, and none of them look heroic. &an you imagine 2ames 0ond in a&amry3 #y 4ord 4usion gets good mileage, but #ick $aller would 5ust look silly

doing business out of the back seat. The only new cars still popular in movies are big black 6)7s with tinted windows, which usually prowl in packs.

!nyway, $aller is a street-wise defense attorney with connections who knows how to

collect and invest prudent envelopes full of cash. 6o connected is this guy that amotorcycle gang materiali+es more or less when he needs one. /ne day a bondsman

% John Leguizamo' comes to him with a higher-class client than usual. Louis 8oulet

%Ryan Phillippe' is a rich kid from 0everly $ills accused of beating up a woman.

$e"s clean-cut, looks #ick in the eyes, seriously insists he is innocent and wants atrial to prove it.

#ick senses there is something fishy. 6o do I. If 8oulet has unlimited funds and really is innocent, why is he hiring a guy who works out of the back seat of a car3 I"ve seen a

lot of crime movies and read my Raymond Chandler and 8oss #acdonald. I know,

even if #ick doesn"t, that he"s being used in some way.

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Let"s not get into the details. (etails are interchangeable in movies like this. hat you

want is a laconic wise guy in the lead, and #c&onaughey does a nice line in those. 9ou

need a good dame in the picture. Marisa Tomei plays his e:-wife, courtroom

opponent and %still' friend. hen Tomei walks into a movie, it"s like the ;ueen cameinto the room. I want to stand up. I know why Lady aga wants #arisa to play her in

a biopic. It"s not because they look like sisters. It"s because every woman, and manymen, would love to have a smile like #arisa Tomei"s.

e also meet #ick"s opposing attorney % Josh Lucas'* a former client he plea-

bargained into prison %Michael Pena'* a cop %Bryan Cranston' who considers him

a shyster and, most valuable, #ick"s private investigator %William ! Macy'. The .I.

role isn"t very big, but #acy makes it distinctive* he brings it a re all on #ickey $aller>s client list. 4or him, the law is rarely about

guilt or innocence = it>s about negotiation and manipulation. 6ometimes it>s evenabout 5ustice.

! 0everly $ills playboy arrested for attacking a woman he picked up in a bar chooses$aller to defend him, and #ickey has his first high-paying client in years. It is a

defense attorney>s dream, what they call a franchise case. !nd as the evidence stacksup, $aller comes to believe this may be the easiest case of his career.

Then someone close to him is murdered and $aller discovers that his search forinnocence has brought him face-to-face with evil as pure as a flame. To escape

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without being burned, he must deploy every tactic, feint, and instinct in his arsenal =

this time to save his own life.

The Lincoln Lawyer was released as a feature lm in #arch ?@AA. The movie stars

#atthew #c&onaughey as #ickey $aller, #arisa Tomei as #aggie #cherson, and

8yan hillippe as Louis 8oulet. It is available now in (7( and download.

The Lincoln Lawyer is available in paperback and as an e-book, an audiobook, and in

large print formats

R"#$MAT

We open in the car of Mickey Haller (Matthew McConaughey) being driven to the

courthouse by his driver Earl (Lawerence Mason). He gets inside and bails

bonds!en "al (#ohn Legui$a!o) co!es up to hi! and tells hi! he has a great

client for hi!. %he client&s na!e is Louis 'oulet ('yan hillipe) and he&s accused of

beating up a hooker 'eggie Ca!po. ll "al wants Haller to do is !ake sure went

bail is set that the client&s fa!ily goes with a bond instead of collateral. Haller

would have to be on the other side of town at noon. Haller says he will think about

it.

Haller bribes a bailiff to let his client go first. Haller goes to see his client Harold

and tells hi! when they will say they are not ready for trial. %he real reason is that

Haller has not been paid to work and he wants his !oney. Haller tells the *udge

they need to find a witness and need ti!e to prepare. %he *udge honors the re+uest.

Haller gets into his car telling Earl he needs to get to his ne,t case. Earl asks if his

position will be per!anent even after Haller gets his license back (Haller was

busted for -/0 that&s why he has a driver). Haller tells Earl he got his license back

three !onths ago0 he likes having hi! around. Earl s!iles.

Haller&s car is surrounded by bikers and Haller tells Earl to pull over. 1ne of the!

Eddie (%race dkins) co!es up and tells Haller they already paid hi! five thousand

dollars. Haller says he needs !ore to fly in an aerial e,pert who will testify that the

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23/ violated air space regulations when they took pictures of Harold&s 4far!4.

Eddie gives Haller another ten thousand and the bikers leave. Haller reveals to Earl

that it was a hustle0 they didn&t need an e,pert fro! 5ew 6ork they have plenty in

Hollywood. Earl says Haller would of done good on the street.

Haller goes to see 'oulet. 'oulet says he is innocent of what he is being charge

with. nother in!ate Corliss (7hea Whigna!) tries to recruit Haller but Haller tells

hi! to back off since he is with a client. 'oulet tells Haller about hi!self0 he&s

thirty two lives in 3el ir sells real estate and has nothing on his records but

parking tickets (i!portant later). Haller tells 'oulet he will try to get hi! out on

bail.

Haller goes to the acting prosecutor Maggie Mcherson (Marisa %o!ei) who

happens to be his e,8wife (they have a daughter) and thus will have to e,cuseherself fro! the case (as they personally know each other0 conflict of interest).

Maggie is !ad but says she will drop into %ed Minton&s (#osh Lucas) lap after the

initial bail hearing. Haller successfully argues for bail the one condition being

'oulet wears a tracking bracelet at all ti!es. Haller !eets the fa!ily lawyer Cecil

-obbs (3ob 9unton) who ad!its that 'oulet specifically picked Haller which

surprises hi!. 5evertheless they set a !eeting for four p! Haller leaves the

courthouse because he has to !eet another client. He tells -obbs that he will need

:;;< upfront another :;;< when they go to trial and !ore if the trial goes

beyond two weeks.

Haller goes to see 9loria (


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wo!an&s neighbors and the girl already talking to the police. He never laid a hand

on her the !an before hi! !ust of done it to possibly spring an e,tortion plot.

%he police have a different story. s narrated by 2rank 'oulet broke into the

'eggie Ca!po&s apart!ent and a struggle ensued where he threw her around andheld a knife to her throat only for her to grab a bottle of vodka and knock hi! in the

head. 'oulet notices a flaw in the story0 the knife they supposedly show in the

report 2rank brought isn&t his knife. Haller asks if there is anything he should know.

'oulet says no.

Haller and 2rank are getting a drink that night. Haller tells 2rank to start with the

club 'oulet was at and go fro! there. Maggie is at the bar and seeing how drunk

Haller is takes hi! ho!e.

2rank co!es the ne,t !orning with the security footage. -espite a slight

discrepancy or two it follows 'oulet&s version of events. Haller is happy he can

spin this in his client&s favor.

Haller goes to see Minton to 4officially4 get the -.. report. Haller thinks he has

this one in the bag but Minton doesn&t look he is backing down. s Haller is

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case file and sees it is si!ilar to 'oulet&s. %he difference was the other girl was

!urdered.

Haller re!e!bers his !eeting with Martine$. Martine$ staunchly proclai!s his

innocence but Haller says the prosecution has -5 evidence and circu!stantialwitness state!ents that !ake hi! look bad. Martine$ will have to take a plea if he

wants not to get the death penalty. Martine$ is crushed but eventually takes a deal0

Life with a chance of parole in :> years. %hat was about four years ago.

Haller goes to see Martine$ in 7an ?uentin and tells hi! he is trying to 4!ake it

right4. %hough not convinced with his sincerity Martine$ tells his story !aking it

clear he didn&t hurt the girl. %here was another guy at the bar. Haller shows hi! a

series of pictures ending with 'oulet. Martine$ flips out and though not directly

stating it Haller reali$es the truth.

Haller goes to 2rank&s house drunk. Haller tells 2rank that they were set up fro!

the beginning. 'oulet is a killer0 he !urdered the wo!an Martine$ went to prison

for and would have killed the other girl if he hadn&t been stopped. 'oulet picked

hi! because he was part of the other case and attorney client privilege bars hi!

fro! saying anything for fear of losing his career. 2rank reali$es that&s 'oulet&s

M1= He not only likes to co!!it a cri!e but to also !ake sure so!eone else goes

down as the guilty party. 2rank asks Haller what is he is going to do.

Later that night as Haller is going ho!e he calls 2rank and tells hi! to deeper into

'oulet including the parking tickets. He then gets a call fro! Maggie telling

Hayley has soccer on 7aturday. Haller sees his door is open. He goes inside to see

'oulet has broken inside. 'oulet tells Haller that he knows he went to see Martine$

and directly states he killed the wo!an and there is nothing he can do about it.

'oulet co!!ents on Hayley&s picture and Haller reali$es he is being threatened.

Haller tells hi! to leave.

hat 7aturday Haller goes to see his daughter play soccer. Maggie is there and tells

hi! she&s taking Hayley ho!e. 2rank has been !urdered.

Haller goes to 2rank&s house. %he lead investigator -ectective Lankford (3ryan

Cranston) !akes it clear he thinks Haller is a suspect. Haller has a good idea who

really did it0 'oulet.

Haller goes ho!e and finds a !essage on his answering !achine. /t&s 2rank *ust

before he died. He looked into 'oulet and found 4Martine$&s ticket ho!e4. %here is

a knock at the door and 2rank hangs up. Haller calls -ectective 7obel about the call

and 7obel reveals that 2rank was killed with an anti+ue .@@ pistol. Haller goes to


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his desk0 he has a .@@ pistol. /t is gone0 'oulet stole it when he broke in. Haller

screa!s in anger0 'oulet is black!ailing hi! with a !urder he co!!itted.

Haller goes to see "al and angrily confronts hi! saying he was picked by 'oulet

and "al lied. "al ad!its it but says he knows nothing about what was going on.Haller thinks "al helped 'oulet kill 2rank because he was the only one who could

fake the tracking device but "al vehe!ently denies it.

Lankford co!es with a search warrant and searches Haller&s house. %hey notice the

e!pty gun case and !ake it !ore clear they think he killed 2rank.

%he first day of the trail Minton !akes it clear that 'oulet assaulted and planned on

killing that girl. Haller counters saying the wo!an is a prostitute and was looking

for an easy payday.

%he court had tracked down 'oulet&s 4second !an4. %he !an clai!s he had

consensual se, with the wo!an but left her unhar!ed. Haller attacks his credibility

and alleges since the wo!an&s bruises are on the left side of her face and he&s left

handed that he was the one who actually beat her.

%he state star witness is the victi! herself 'eggie Ca!po. 7he says she is not

proud of her profession but her life is hard and she has to !ake choices. Haller asks

her if she going to try to sue 'oulet in civil court which she declines to !ake

public knowledge saying she only talked to a lawyer. Haller can only do so !uch

without badgering a witness but plants a seed of doubt in the *uror&s !inds about

who is the real victi! here. %he state rests.

1n the defense Haller calls 'oulet&s !other Mary. 7he e,plains her son carried a

knife ever since so!eone close to hi! was attacked and he never had to use it

hi!self. 7he does not directly reveal it was her. When Minton cross e,a!ines her

and clai!s the defense gave her that story to use Mary tells hi! she was the one

who was raped. Minton is aghast reali$ing he looks like he was badgering a rape

victi!. Minton ends the +uestioning before he causes !ore da!age.

'oulet takes the stand. He vehe!ently proclai!s his innocence and plays to the

*ury&s sy!pathy about being falsely accused of a cri!e. %he -efense rests. Minton

says before the state officially rests they would like to call a rebuttal witness the

following day. %he *udge grants it.

Haller deduces by a witness list that Corliss is the one that will be called. 'eali$ing

there is a way to !ake it all right he hatches a plan. He pretends to see 9loria and

asks her to pass a !essage to Corliss which she does. He then has his assistant digup so!e dirt on Corliss. He gets a subpoena for


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killed 2rank 51% her son. 7he reali$ed 2rank was close to figuring out what her

son had done and didn&t want hi! to go to *ail. Haller has his gun he got fro! Earl

on hi! and shoots her back killing her before passing out.

Haller gets out of the hospital alive. Earl drives hi! away and says he found theyfreed Martine$ what Haller confir!s. s for 'oulet he is under arrest and is

looking at the death penalty for all he has done.

Haller&s car is surrounded by bikers again. Earl pulls over and Eddie talks to Haller

asking if he really shot a client&s !other which Haller saying he did. Eddie is glad

Haller is 1< because Harold got busted again. Eddie asks for a reduced rate for the

favor they did hi! but Haller gives hi! one better0 he&ll do Harold&s case pro bono.

7atisfied Eddie leaves. Earl asks his boss if he lost his !ind. Haller *ust shrugs

saying they are repeat custo!ers and he can *ust charge the! !ore later. Earl andHaller drive off.

Matthew McConaughey should stic* to playing lawyers" %ifteen years ago, he siled in &ohn

@risham adaptation A #ime #o ill"

!eBs on similar form in this absorbing adaptation of Michael ConnellyBs page.turner, playing Mic*

!aller, an amoral -A defence lawyer who runs his business from the bac* of a -incoln town car

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prostitute of attempted murder"

Pleading doe.eyed innocence, Roulet claims heBs been set up" tBs a theory that doesnBt wash with

!allerBs own private investigator +illiam ! Macy, while !aller himself is left to consider words

from his own legendary lawyer father +who, in a nice blend of fiction and reality, once repped

gangster Mic*ey Cohen/ E#hereBs no client as scary as an innocent man"F

-oo*ing increasingly haggard as the trial unfurls, as !aller gradually comes to the realisation that

this is no open.and.shut case, McConaughey gives his best performance in years" t may not

9uite be on the level of Paul ?ewmanBs ambulance chaser in #he Gerdict but itBs subtle, assured

wor*"

&ust because !aller operates by his own code of ethics, it doesnBt ma*e him a total deadbeat 7

witness his affection for his daughter and e5.wife +#omei 7 and McConaughey embodies these

contradictions perfectly"

#he support cast is also universally fine, from MacyBs shaggy.loo*ing P"" to &osh -ucasBbeleaguered :tate attorney" Credit to director $rad %urman for assembling a group of actors, not

stars, who are willing to service the story, rather than their own egos"

#here are other pleasures too, from the aptly nervy camerawor* to the urban soundtrac* +@ang

:tarr, ;ri* $ H Ra*im"

Des, #he -incoln -awyer is hardly groundbrea*ing" $ut what it does do, it does very well"

Verdict:

Engrossing. A classy cast juice up this compelling courtroom saga, with MatthewMcConaughey – so long starved o a decent lead – on ire.

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