Monday, April 20, 2015

The Case Against 8 (2014)

Director: Ben Cotner & Ryan White
Run time: 112 min. 
Call number: KFC129 .C374 2014

"Looking back on the legal battle that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court decision on California's Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage couldn't be more timely. It also makes for a riveting film. Even knowing the outcome, watching '8' . . . is like watching a well-scripted legal thriller. . . . Filmmakers Ben Cotner and Ryan White were granted extraordinary access to war rooms in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., as two seemingly ill-matched legal titans, conservative Ted Olson and liberal David Boies, led the charge against Prop. 8 through the court system."

David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle