Canterbury's Law

6.3IMDb Score
Released:2008-03-10
Genre:Drama
Duration:4260 min
Director:
Actors:Julianna Margulies, Ben Shenkman, Keith D. Robinson, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Aidan Quinn
Production:Sony Pictures Television, Apostle

Overview:

Elizabeth Canterbury is a force of nature. An attorney on the rise, she puts her career on the line to take on risky and unpopular cases, even when they take a toll on her personal life. Elizabeth and her law professor husband, Matt Furey, haunted by the unsolved disappearance of their young son, struggle to distance themselves from the tragedy and put their relationship back together. But those goals become elusive whenever Elizabeth's work provides a stark reminder of the justice absent in their own lives.

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