The film, like the new series, focuses on criminal defence attorney Haller and his many clients, most of whom he happily knows are guilty but even so, he manages to win cases with relative ease.
While McConaughey is known for his smooth, drawling Southern charm, it’s not the only thing he brings to this performance. If you’ve watched him in 1996’sin a way that you can only hold your breath in anticipation for. In the film, Haller is tasked with defending the millionaire young heir who stands accused of a brutal assault on a, Louis Roulet . He’s entitled, a complete mummy’s boy and represents all that is wrong when you’re a young man entitled by your position of wealth and power.