Anne Archer seems a bit too attractive and young for a judge and especially for a Supreme Court nominee, but she pulls it off.
As her daughter, Erin Karpluk doesn't have a lot to do, but she is a very lovely young lady with personality and should go far.
Michael Shanks as the seducer is wonderfully smarmy, and terribly good in this role.
Early dialog is often clever and humorous and pleasant fun to listen to, even though to me all the utter nonsense about government -- disgustingly realistic in this movie -- usually makes me both angry and frustrated.
Politics should not rear its ugly head in a Supreme Court nomination, but -- especially since the naming of Judge Robert Bork, and the astonishingly ugly attacks on him, followed by the even worse and even more vicious attacks on Clarence Thomas -- politics does intrude and we've all seen that one particular party and class of people in government have no limits, no concept of ethics.
This script does a good job of not naming political parties and therefore does not point out one or another as culprits. But anyone at all familiar with recent history should be able to make some comparisons.
Never mind. The story stands solidly on its own merits, and the cast is superb. I recommend "Judicial Intrigue."
