The Judge(2022)

The Judge is a legal drama following a high-powered defense attorney who returns to his small Indiana hometown after his mother's death. Forced to confront his estranged father—a respected but rigid judge—he discovers the older man is accused of a hit-and-run that killed a local resident. As the son takes on his father's defense, buried family resentments surface alongside questions of guilt, redemption, and justice. The film explores whether blood ties should influence the law, and whether a man's legacy can survive scandal. Tensions escalate as evidence mounts and the trial threatens to destroy both their reputations and their fragile reconciliation.