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...Pollack's small New York City law firm consistently wins the biggest money judgments in the nation. Yet Pollack and the four other young lawyers (average age: 31) who work with him do not handle the traditionally lucrative kinds of cases-personal-injury litigation, treble-damage civil antitrust suits, defending giant corporate clients. Ron Pollack is into food for the poor. For the past six years, his Food Research and Action Center has successfully fought Administration efforts to cut back federal spending on food for those who would otherwise have to do without. In the process, Pollack and FRAC...
...When the affidavit supporting Patty's plea for bail was presented in court, the prosecution gained the right to call her to the stand to defend her statements. To determine if Patty is capable of testifying, Judge Carter appointed four experts to examine the celebrated prisoner: Psychiatrists Seymour Pollack of the University of Southern California, Donald T. Lund of Stanford University, Louis J. West of U.C.L.A., and Psychologist Margaret Thaler Singer of the University of California at Berkeley...
Directed by SYDNEY POLLACK...
...being only because Redford agrees to show up in it. Redford is a good, shrewd, sometimes very funny actor, but the fact that movies like Three Days of the Condor are not really worth making at all is a thought that occurs to no one. Neither Redford, Director Sydney Pollack (The Way We Were) nor any of the assortment of assembled co-stars (Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow, John Houseman) can make material like this better than passable. No one could, and you wonder why anyone bothers. Redford and all his co-stars and all the elaborate production...
Mystical Grace. Director Sydney Pollack (They Shoot Horses, Don 't They? and The Way We Were) is not a master of the action genre. The Yakuza's scenes of violence lack real force. For all the slashings, knife fights and ritual sacrificing of fingers, the film is, strangely, not violent enough. It does not catch at all the awful mystical grace that can draw and hold a man to such a life. The violence is held down, whereas the intricacies of the Yakuza are too extensively explained. The movie would have been more chilling had it been stranger...