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The Defenders: Taking the First

1998★ 5.8 · 41h 36mDramaTV Movie

Overview

A racist provokes four teens into beating a Latino youth to death after one of his fiery speeches on a college campus. The Prestons are first called upon to defend one of the youths who gives testimony against the other three. Then, in a turnaround, the family of the murdered boy hires the Prestons to try to get a conviction against the racist.

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Cast

Clifton Collins Jr.
as Nelson Rodriguez

Beau Bridges
as Don Preston

Richard Fitzpatrick
as Jones

Martha Plimpton
as MJ Preston

Bernard Behrens
as Milton Lewis

Mimi Kuzyk
as Camille Preston

Jeremy London
as Wyman James

Kristen Holden-Ried
as McCann

Christopher Redman
as Steven Preston

Philip Casnoff
as John Walker