The Take (2008)
Directed by Brad Furman
After he's shot during a heist in East L.A., an armored truck driver wrestles with rehabilitation and tracking down the man who committed the crime.
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Directed by Brad Furman (The Take) from John Romano's adaptation of the Michael Connelly novel, the film stars Matthew McConaughey as a sleek and smarmy defense lawyer who represents a playboy client accused of assault.
"The Lincoln Lawyer" was written by John Romano (2008's " Nights in Rodanthe ") and directed by Brad Furman (whose only previous effort was 2007's direct-to-DVD "The Take") with a seemingly stringent adherence to Michael Connelly's mass-market crime novel of the same name.
Director Brad Furman manages this huge ensemble with such ease that it’s a wonder why he hasn’t done anything since 2007’s The Take.
Featuring a one-writer screenplay by John Romano, based on the best selling detective novels by former L.A. Times crime reporter Michael Connelly, and directed by Brad Furman (The Take), Haller seems at first to be a standard issue defense attorney.
Maybe Furman (who previously made the 2007 heist drama The Take) has felt that way, too.
The Lincoln Lawyer is a particular triumph for Furman, whose debut directorial feature, 2007's Leguizamo vehicle, The Take, was falsely assumed to be a straight-to-DVD genre thriller and swept under the rug.