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Mon 10 November 2025 21:15, UK
Hollywood has a long and storied obsession with courtroom dramas. And the clue is in the name; lawsuits and prosecutions have a narrative that can spark jaw-dropping outcomes on occasion, and the writers and directors of movies have captured them to fine effect for decades.
Some examples of when they do that well would be the incredible Anatomy of a Murder with Jimmy Stewart, which if you haven’t seen is an absolute must, Sidney Lumet’s 12 Angry Men which is like sitting in a pressure cooker for 90 minutes (in a good way) and the fantastically twisty Witness for the Prosecution, which has a kind of ‘Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense’ moment.
But the courtroom isn’t always a place for gripping drama. Hollywood sometimes also likes to make legal movies about the most pointless, irrelevant stuff, plots revolving around lawsuits that either make no sense or aren’t rooted in reality.
That being the ‘case’, let’s have a look at cases that should have stayed firmly inside the scriptwriter’s pen. Or a typewriter if they used one of those.
The five most unbelievable lawsuits in cinema history:
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