The Trial of the Chicago 7
The year is 1969 and 8 men are brought to trial for organizing anti-war protests the prior year outside the Democratic National Convention in THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7. The protests had been organized without the proper permits, and when thousands of riot police are sent in, they turn bloody. The defendants and their lawyers (Mark Rylance, Ben Shenkman) are convinced the charges are politically motivated, and in the general social upheaval of the late 1960s, there's a wide breach between the traditional bureaucracy and growing social movements. The new Nixon government has called in young prosecutor Richard Schultz (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) to take the case, assigned a seemingly unscrupulous judge (Frank Langella). Among the defendants are hippies Abbie Hoffman (Sacha Baron Cohen) and Jerry Rubin (Jeremy Strong), of the Youth International Party (known as the Yippies), the more clean-cut Tom Hayden (Eddie Redmayne) and Rennie Davis (Alex Sharp) of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and Black Panther Bobby Seale (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II).
Starring
Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, Sacha Baron Cohen
Director
Aaron Sorkin