The most dramatic courtroom moment in recent movie memory is a confession-the one in “A Few Good Men” when Jack Nicholson bellows, “You can’t handle the truth”

Playing the lawyer who lures Nicholson’s character to incriminate himself, Tom Cruise offers a wonderfully stunned look. It’s strikingly similar to what television viewers saw on David Frost’s face in 1977 when he prompted Richard Nixon to admit, “I let the American people down.”

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