Al Pacino and Helen Mirren star in this compelling, if slippery, HBO Films production, which uses the impending trial of Phil Spector (accused of murdering an actress in his home by putting a gun in her mouth; he pled not guilty) as a launching point for an intense, and intimate, character study. Pacino goes from rant to rant, and wig to wig, as the former “wall of sound” music producer, while Mirren matches his fury with her calm as his attorney. For full reviews of this telemovie, see Ed Bark’s Uncle Barky’s Bytes, and read and/or hear my own review on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross.

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