Broken Trust (1995) (TV)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

Geoffrey Sax

Writers (WGA):

William P. Wood (novel)
Joan Didion (teleplay) ...

Release Date:

6 August 1995 (USA)

Genre:

Thriller

Plot:

Judge Nash is highly regarded for his position and decisions in the courtroom. He's approached by a...

Plot Keywords:

Judge | Sting Operation | Courtroom | Bribe | Trial

Cast

Tom Selleck	...	Judge Timothy Nash
Elizabeth McGovern	...	Janice Dillon
William Atherton	...	Roemer
Charles Haid	...	Harold Ashley
Stanley DeSantis	...	Escobar
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Julian Christopher	...	Detective Garvey
Jon Cuthbert	...	Detective Mancuso
Lorena Gale	...	Carole Benisek
L. Harvey Gold	...	Carl Brecht
Philip Granger	...	Agent Sanchez
Helen Honeywell	...	Mrs. Beller
Alf Humphreys	...	Officer
Rob LaBelle
Cynthia Martells
Marsha Mason	...	Ruth
Kevin McNulty	...	Judge Peatling
John Milford
Maxine Miller	...	Hillary Nash
Robin Mossley	...	Agent Testa
Alan C. Peterson	...	Highland
Nicholas Pryor
Wren Roberts	...	Bouncer
Brent Stait	...	Evan Soika
Jay Sterrenberg	...	Benjamin Nash
Howard Storey	...	Floyd
Scott Swanson	...	Judge Potter
Greg Thirloway	...	Lawyer
Robert Thurston	...	Photographer
Rodney Turner	...	Bailiff
Tonia Usher	...	Store Clerk
Fritz Weaver
Meredith Bain Woodward	...	Suzanna Jardine (as Meredith Woodward)

Also Known As:

Court of Honor

Runtime:

Netherlands:90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Iceland:12 | Australia:M | Netherlands:12 | UK:15 (video premiere)

Company:

Fonda Films

An intricately plotted and genuinely involving story about judicial corruption.

"Broken Trust" explores the murky world of judicial corruption--the temptations for underpaid judges to take drug money to go easy on criminal defendants. It also focuses on the prosecutorial tactics necessary to trap corrupt judges and the ways in which overzealous prosecutors can do terrible damage. The central character, Judge Tim Nash (Tom Selleck) has financial and personal problems of his own when he's reluctantly recruited by the federal strike force to run a sting on one of his fellow judges suspected of taking bribes. But things don't go according to plan and the scheme spins wildly out of control. I thought the story was told with restraint and the moral ambivalence of the world in which it was set was convincingly depicted. There isn't much of a love story in "Broken Trust" and not much violence, but there is a great deal of substance and depth in this film.