Like a runaway bride in a '30s screwball comedy, Lady jilts a respectable lawyer at the altar and bolts for Capri, where Hugo drags his reluctant family, including 5-year-old Fin, to retrieve her.
The gala label is amply justified: the cast features Natasha Richardson as the fading leading lady Desirée Armfeldt; her mother, Vanessa Redgrave, as Desirée's ex-courtesan mother; Victor Garber as Fredrik Egerman, the respectable lawyer and Desirée's ex-lover; Laura Benanti as Fredrik's virginal second wife; and Marc Kudisch and Christine Baranski as a sexually tormented count and countess.
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Brave advice — she was a French Protestant, daughter of a respectable Parisian lawyer, granddaughter of a clergyman, and anything but an adventuress.
Even as young Max ogles the ineffable Alice, her attention fastens upon his one and only friend, Hughie, faithful Hughie, who has played with the senescent little freak as if he were a normal boy, and who keeps their friendship through fifty eventful years, while he himself, beneath the surface life of a respectable married lawyer... Never mind.
On "Dharma and Greg, Greg Thomas Gibsonon), a respectable married lawyer, can't have his wife (Jenna Elfman) work at his office because every time he looks at her, his legal training and his self-discipline vanish and he has to have sex with her, right there on the desk.
Ostensibly he was a respectable, recently retired lawyer but there was a recklessness about him.
The movies have always featured wicked women: in 1915, Hollywood's original 'vamp', Theda Bara, ensnared and destroyed a respectable Wall Street lawyer in A Fool There Was.
8 P.M. Hallmark Moviee Channel) GOODNIGHT FOR JUSTICE: THE MEASURE OF A MAN (2012) Luke Perry portrays John Goodnight, a fun-loving lawyer turned respectable circuit judge who finds himself in a dusty courtroom in the Wild West with a malicious prosecutor.
Most of us have "respectable" careers as bankers, lawyers, doctors and business professionals, all harboring a childhood fantasy and a dark secret.
Even the most respectable citizens -- doctors, lawyers, teachers, shopkeepers, women as well as men -- were drawn in little by little, visiting the demonstrations after work, throwing in their lot, and finally staying overnight in the square.
