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* TimeShiftedActor: Hayley Taylor and Stacy Bergman play younger versions of Claudia Draper.

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* TimeShiftedActor: Hayley Taylor and Stacy Bergman play younger versions of Claudia Draper.Draper.

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* GoingCommando: Claudia, while clad only in a hospital gown, shows the goods to her lawyer and dares him to look, mentioning that she flashed her shrink and he did not even look.
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The movie also stars Creator/RichardDreyfuss, Creator/MaureenStapleton, Creator/KarlMalden, Creator/EliWallach, Creator/RobertWebber, Creator/JamesWhitmore, Creator/LeslieNielsen, Creator/WilliamPrince, and Creator/DakinMatthews.

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The movie also stars Creator/RichardDreyfuss, Creator/MaureenStapleton, Creator/KarlMalden, Creator/EliWallach, Creator/RobertWebber, Creator/JamesWhitmore, Creator/LeslieNielsen, Creator/LeslieNielsen (in what turned out to be his last performance in a serious movie before he started exclusively doing comedies), Creator/WilliamPrince, and Creator/DakinMatthews.
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* TheFilmOfThePlay: Based on the play of the same name by Tom Topor.
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A 1987 American drama directed by Creator/MartinRitt that has a call-girl (Creator/BarbaraStreisand) taking her right to stand trial for murder than be declared legally insane.

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A 1987 American drama directed by Creator/MartinRitt that has a call-girl (Creator/BarbaraStreisand) (Creator/BarbraStreisand) taking her right to stand trial for murder than be declared legally insane.
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A 1987 American drama directed by Creator/MartinRitt that has a call-girl (Creator/BarbaraStreisand) taking her right to stand trial for murder than be declared legally insane.

The movie also stars Creator/RichardDreyfuss, Creator/MaureenStapleton, Creator/KarlMalden, Creator/EliWallach, Creator/RobertWebber, Creator/JamesWhitmore, Creator/LeslieNielsen, Creator/WilliamPrince, and Creator/DakinMatthews.

It was released on December 11, 1987.

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!Tropes for the film:
* InsanityDefense: Averted when Claudia demands they declare her sane. The film note (accurately) that if a defendent is declared insane, the person can be kept locked up for life, even for a crime that would only entail a few years in prison.
* OneWordTitle: '''Nuts'''.
* {{Tagline}}: "Mad As In Angry. Or Just Plain... NUTS".
* TimeShiftedActor: Hayley Taylor and Stacy Bergman play younger versions of Claudia Draper.

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