Missed this Michael Douglas film and thought I was missing something. Douglas plays a Judge, (Steven Hardin), "Don't Say a Word",'01, who has a hard time trying to judge criminals and sentence them directly to jail. The criminals have good lawyers who find Loop Holes in the law and force Steven Hardin to just simply release them all back into society. Hardin gets all twisted up like a pretzel and even his wife, Sharon Gless,(Emily Hardin),"Queer as Folk",'TV Series, has a hard time getting him to concentrate on her and especially in the bedroom department. Finally, Judge Hardin gets into a deep conversation with his friend, Judge Ben Caulfield,(Hal Holbrook),"Purpose",'02, who has a great way to solve his problem and offers him the opportunity to judge criminals a very different way. Michael Douglas had a pained expression's from the beginning of the picture to the very end and I doubt very much if he liked very much the character he had to portray. There is very little effort in Michael's role to indicate he had any enthusiasm about this role.
Review of The Star Chamber
