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Let's Kill All The Lawyers

1997, Movie, R, 103 mins

Let's Kill All The Lawyers: Review

LET'S KILL ALL THE LAWYERS
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A farcical, skit-comedy assault on the legal profession that's been kicking around since 1991 and is neither as awful as the cheesy-teasey ad art suggests nor as clever as it aspires to be. Young idealist Foster Merkul (Rick Frederick) is fresh out of school and learning the ins and outs of practical lawyering as an intern for shameless, ambulance-chasing shyster Junior Rawley (James Vezina). After watching Junior pull stunts like posing as a priest so he can drum up business in the airport lounge where friends and relatives of airline crash victims wait for news of their loved ones, Foster begins to doubt his childhood dream of making the world a better place through practicing law. He's also haunted by the mysterious and beautiful Satori Bunco (Michell DeVuono), who runs New Age seminars helping lawyers reconnect with their submerged consciences, and just may be pursuing a more extreme path to reforming the legal profession on the sly. The plot is mostly an excuse for a string of lawyer jokes, ranging from sight gags and one-liners to a series of faux TV spots featuring writer-director Ron Senkowski as a lawyer who calls himself Crazy Mikey and boasts "I'll try anything!" The labored, vaguely Life of Brian-esque prologue involving the condemned Jesus (David Christensen) and a smarmy attorney (Murphy Dunne) gets things off on the wrong foot, and the flat, bright, TV-friendly lighting undermines the otherwise professional production values. But this modest item should find a comfortable berth on video store shelves, shoulder to shoulder with PREPPIES and BUY & CELL. leave a comment --Maitland McDonagh
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