Nuts (1987)
Nuts (1987)
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Cast
as Claudia Draper
as Aaron Levinsky
as Rose Kirk
as Arthur Kirk
as Dr. Herbert A. Morrison
as Francis MacMillan
as Judge Stanley Murdoch
as Allen Green
as Clarence Middleton
as Harry Harrison
as 1st Judge
as Saul Krieglitz
as Dr. Johnson
as Dr. Arantes
as 11 year-old Claudia
as Cell Woman #2
as Cell Woman #3
as Cell Woman #3
as Cell Man #1
as Arraignment Court Clerk
as Guard #1
as Court Officer #2
as Guard #3
as Defendant Gonzales
as Lawyer #2
as Bar Patron #2
as Attendant #2
as Bar Patron #3
as Correction Officer #1
as Correction Officer #2
as Dayroom Woman #1
as Dayroom Woman #6
as Card Playing Patient
as Cell Woman #1
as Cell Man
Critic Reviews for Nuts
All Critics (22) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (14) | DVD (1)
Streisand produced, developed the script, and composed most of the music for this showpiece, and her efforts, as usual, pay off, above all in her angry and lively performance.
Streisand's a star, which means your complicity is on call at all times. In the shade, Dreyfuss is terrific, banking down his natural cockiness.
The film is almost entirely adrift.
It's Hollywood manipulation at its best.
It wants to be a movie with a message, but in the end it's just a melodrama.
Nuts is essentially just a futile exercise in courtroom cliches, surrounding a good performance that doesn't fit.
Audience Reviews for Nuts
It was slightly unbelievable for me since if I'd such a client to defend who is not willing to co-operate the least, I don't think I'd touch that case. Or else give up easily. Then again, I ain't no lawyer!!! They show her crossing the limits so many times that it becomes hard to digest it that she ain't a nut. Leaving aside this minor problem, the movie works fine as a courtroom drama.
Super Reviewer
Really powerful and intelligent film based on Tom Topor's Broadway play as this is a highly charged drama that raises some uneasy questions. This is a film that deserves more attention then it originally received, it is honest, though-provoking, and features a brilliant performance from Barbra Streisand as real-life defender Claudia Draper. Richard Dreyfuss also turns in his usual skilled performance as a lawyer who becomes more passionate about the case the longer he is involved with it. His eventual concern for Claudia is touching. And Karl Malden, Maureen Stapleton, James Whitmore, and Leslie Nielsen all play excellent supporting roles.
Super Reviewer
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