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Release year: 1987

Storyline

A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.

Top credits

Directors

Martin Ritt

Writers

Cast

Barbra Streisand — Claudia Draper
Richard Dreyfuss — Aaron Levinsky
Maureen Stapleton — Rose Kirk
Karl Malden — Arthur Kirk

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Did you know

• This is the final film of both Robert Webber and Karl Malden.

• This was Leslie Nielsen's final dramatic role.

• Mark Rydell was the first director attached to this film, with Barbra Streisand interested in playing Claudia. However, Rydell cast the younger Debra Winger instead. Then Streisand came back after Winger pulled out. Then Rydell left the project, and Streisand hired Martin Ritt. Streisand says she was genuinely frightened of Leslie Nielsen, who managed to convince her he was dangerous. She says she wishes she had "fought back" more in their dramatic sequence together, but that he really did scare her.