YMMV / The Verdict

• Adaptation Displacement: The film is based off of a book that precious few will remember. As Sidney Lumet himself noted, that's probably all for the better.
• Award Snub: The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, but won none of them.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The Catholic Archdiocese being involved, however peripherally, with a crime and attempting to cover it up, leaves an even worse taste in the mouth after the Sex Abuse Scandal that came to light in Boston in 2002.
• Retroactive Recognition: Bruce Willis and Tobin Bell appear as courtroom observers.