January 23, 2014Primal Fear was a really cool movie. Edward Norton makes his feature debut as a poor kid with a split personality that may or may not have just killed a priest. Richard Gere stars as a former prosecutor turned big time defense lawyer who decides to take Norton's case pro-bono to get some additional press. Laura Linney plays Gere's former first assistant prosecutor tasked with prosecuting Norton. Norton gets caught red handed, literally, covered in blood and running from the crime scene, so everyone believes he is guilty. Gere believes everyone is innocent until proven guilty, but even he knows there is enough evidence to send Norton to the chair. As he gets to know Norton, and hear his story, he starts to believe otherwise. When it is too late to offer the judge (Alfre Woodard) a plea of insanity, he comes up with a plot to prove to the court that Norton is insane, and it works all too well. It is a very interesting character study on the criminally insane and how far people are willing to go to uncover the truth.
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