Overview
A First Amendment scholar is recruited by an attorney to sue a publishing company after a hit man commits a triple murder by allegedly following a how-to manual the book company published. They set out to put the company on trial for providing blueprints for would-be murderers. Arguing that the publisher is not protected by the First Amendment, the crusading lawyers seek monetary damages for the victims' families.
Cast
- Timothy Hutton as Rod Smolla
- Ron Rifkin as Howard Siegel
- Clark Johnson as James Perry
- Penny Johnson Jerald as Laura Harmon
- Cliff DeYoung as Tom Kelley
- Kenneth Welsh as Peder Lund
- James McDaniel as Lawrence Horn
- Bill McDonald as Peder Lund
- Dean McDermott as Leasure
- Yanna McIntosh as Elaine