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The Trial of the Chicago 7 2020 Netflix Film

Jan 18, 2021
2 min read


What's your review of the 2020 Netflix film the Trial of the Chicago 7, directed by Aaron Sorkin, and starring Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Michael Keaton, and more? #Chicago7 #ChicagoSeven #TrialoftheChicago7 Do you want to watch the Trial of the Chicago 7? Did you enjoy the full movie or just parts of it? The film focuses on seven people on trial following the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. Scroll down for more information!


ABOUT THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 NETFLIX FILM


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The Trial of the Chicago 7 plot from IMDb: "The story of 7 pepeople on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois."


The Trial of the Chicago 7 trailer can be found on Netflix.


Directed by Aaron Sorkin

Produced by Stuart M. Besser, Matt Jackson, Marc Platt, Tyler Thompson

Written by Aaron Sorkin

Music by Daniel Pemberton

Cinematography: Phedon Papamichael

Edited by Alan Baumgarten

Production companies: Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, Cross Creek Pictures, Marc Platt Productions, ShivHans Pictures

Distributed by Netflix

Release date: September 25, 2020 (United States)

Running time: 130 minutes

Budget: $35 million

Box office: $107,423


Cast and Characters:


The seven defendants

Sacha Baron Cohen as Abbie Hoffman, founding member of the Youth International Party (Yippies)

Eddie Redmayne as Tom Hayden, a leader and one time President of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

Alex Sharp as Rennie Davis, organizer in Chicago for the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam and the national organizer of community organizing for the SDS

Jeremy Strong as Jerry Rubin, founding member of the Yippies

John Carroll Lynch as David Dellinger, leader of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (MOBE)

Noah Robbins as Lee Weiner

Daniel Flaherty as John Froines

Other roles

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Bobby Seale, national chairman of the Black Panther Party and eighth defendant

Mark Rylance as William Kunstler, defense counsel, co-founder of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), board member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and active member of the National Lawyers Guild.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Richard Schultz, assistant federal prosecutor

Ben Shenkman as Leonard Weinglass, defense counsel

J. C. MacKenzie as Tom Foran, chief federal prosecutor

Frank Langella as Judge Julius Hoffman

Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Fred Hampton, chairman of Illinois Chapter Black Panther Party

Michael Keaton as Ramsey Clark, United States Attorney General during the riots

John Doman as John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General during the trial

Wayne Duvall as Paul DeLuca, agent assigned to survey Davis during the protests

Caitlin FitzGerald as Daphne O'Connor, FBI agent assigned to Rubin, in order to infiltrate the protests

Max Adler and C. J. Wilson as Officer Stan Wojohowski and Sergeant Scott Scibelli, undercover police officers

Damian Young as Howard Ackerman, special advisor to Mitchell

Alice Kremelberg as Bernardine, receptionist in the defendants' office

Alan Metoskie as Allen Ginsberg


(Descriptions are from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial_of_the_Chicago_7)

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