Movie · Crime · Drama

Roman J. Israel is an idealistic defense attorney whose life gets upended when his boss and mentor -- the legendary civil rights icon William Henry Jackson -- dies unexpectedly. He's then recruited to join a law firm led by George Pierce, an ambitious lawyer who was one of Jackson's former students. Israel's legacy of activism soon gets put to the test when he takes on the case of Langston Bailey, a young man accused of murdering a convenience store clerk.

2018 · 2h 2m
Director Dan Gilroy

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Roman J. Israel, Esq.

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Roman J. Israel is an idealistic defense attorney whose life gets upended when his boss and mentor -- the legendary civil rights icon William Henry Jackson -- dies unexpectedly. He's then recruited to join a law firm led by George Pierce, an ambitious lawyer who was one of Jackson's former students. Israel's legacy of activism soon gets put to the test when he takes on the case of Langston Bailey, a young man accused of murdering a convenience store clerk.

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Average 5.8
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Rotten 79

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Studio
Cross Creek Pictures
Released
2018
Run Time
2 hr 2 min
Rated
16+
Region of Origin
United States
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Languages

Original Audio
English
Audio

English (AD, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩, AAC), Russian (⁨Dolby 5.1⁩, AAC)

Subtitles

English (CC), English (United Kingdom) , English (United States) , Arabic , Bulgarian , Chinese, Simplified , Chinese, Traditional , Czech , Danish , Dutch , Finnish , French (France) , German (Germany) , Greek , Hebrew , Hungarian , Italian (Italy) , Japanese (Japan) , Korean , Norwegian , Polish , Portuguese (Brazil) , Portuguese (Portugal) , Russian , Slovak , Slovenian , Spanish (Latin America) , Spanish (Spain) , Swedish , Thai , Turkish , Ukrainian

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Closed captions refer to subtitles in available languages with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.
Audio descriptions (AD) refer to a narration track describing what is happening on screen to provide context for those who are blind or have low vision.