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Sydney Pollack directs this gritty star-driven drama in which Paul Newman plays Michael Gallagher, a legitimate businessman with family ties to a crime family.
When a local prosecutor becomes frustrated in his attempt to solve the murder of a union head, he leaks a false story to Megan Carter (Sally Field), an unwitting but relentless newspaper journalist, who prints it. The resulting story links Michael publicly to the murder, and he becomes the undeserving subject of a criminal investigation. As Michael's life proceeds to fall apart, he finds that his friends and family are also in danger. Despite Megan's legal immunity, she is in the clear under the absence-of-malice rule in slander and libel cases, and she begins to realize that Michael has nothing to tell the prosecutors and therefore no way to be protected. To save his name, reputation, and career, Michael has no choice but to accept Megan's help and take the actions necessary to uncover the truth.
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