Legal Eagles

3 and 1/2 stars....Something About Debra
This review refers to the DVD(Universal/2003 release) edition of "Legal Eagles"...

Okay, okay,...so let's say you are entertaining beings from another planet. You are telling them about all the great talent we have here in the world of film. Included among that talent would of course be Robert Redford and Debra Winger. "Legal Eagles", although a fun, sometimes thrilling, and entertaining view, may not be the one, you would want to use as an example of all that talent! Maybe it was the chemistry(or lack of), maybe it was two great, but basically dramatic talents doing romantic comedy together, or perhaps the storyline, that mixes romantic comedy with a murder mystery, but probably a little of each of those things, keep this duo from being the shining example of what we expect from them on the screen.

The story is a complex but good one. It's a serio-comic look at some dirty dealings in the Art world with New York City as the centerpiece of all the action. An...

Low key but enjoyable
This is Ivan Reitman's first film after his mega hit "Ghostbusters".

Some will even recognize an exterior or two that was used in both films.

I will always remember this film because I got a pass to a preview screening for it from my art teacher. This was before preview screenings were done as much as they were now by radio stations and more. It was a bit of a special thing in my mind.

I remember enjoying it on a interplay between Redford and Winger level and thinking of it as a good but not great movie.

About a month later, the film opened to mediocre reviews and business.

After that, the movie would turn up on TV and when I caught it, I found myself seeing it thorugh to the end (only to be surprised when the TV version had an altered ending).

Anyway, Legal Eagles became that "old comfortable shoe" of a movie that when it popped up on cable (and for a while it often did)I would go "ahhhh" and keep on watching.

I would've gotten it on VHS, but I was all too aware of how...

Great movie.
I'm a 17 year old movie fan, and just to put my two cents in, I think this movie is awesome. It's not well known, but even so, I watch it every time it's on television. Thumbs up.

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