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In 1968, Tennessee schoolteacher Bertram Cates is put on trial for violating the Butler Act, a state law that prohibits public school teachers from teaching evolution instead of creationism. Drawing intense national attention in the media with writer E. K. Hornbeck reporting, two of the nation's leading lawyers go head to head: Matthew Harrison Brady for the prosecution, and Henry Drummond for the defense.
Tom Hanks
Leonardo DiCaprio
Robert Duvall
Kate Winslet
William H. Macy
Frank Langella
Ron Howard
Brian Grazer
Aaron Sorkin
Howard Shore
Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures
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