It feels like we waited a long time to see anything fresh from Robert Downey Jr.’s new drama / comedy The Judge, only to get the first picture, poster and trailer within a day. Tony Stark himself ended the Downey drought by posting the first trailer from the film to his Twitter account.. From the looks of this, expect family dysfuction, some typically RDJ barbs and Robert Duvall adding gruff gravitas.
brightcove.createExperiences();With Wedding Crashers director David Dobkin overseeing things, The Judge follows big shot lawyer Hank Palmer (Downey Jr.), who reluctantly returns to his childhood home when his mother dies. There, he discovers that his estranged father (Duvall), the town’s judge, is being investigated for murder. So the man who walked away from his family years ago now finds himself having to reconnect with the man he’s tried to avoid.
Alongside Downey Jr. himself, the cast includes Vera Farmiga, Billy Bob Thornton, Vincent D’Onofrio, Dax Shepard, Jeremy Strong, Melissa Leo, Leighton Meester, David Krumholtz and Sarah Lancaster. The Judge arrives in the UK on October 24.