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It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

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Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Scott and Lemon do a curious reversal of the 1960 film with March and Tracy in the same roles. Tracy played the Darrow character (defending Scopes) as a cool, rational lawyer (capable of indignation when defending 'truth') contrasted with March (prosecuting attorney) as an emotionally-driven politician with an enormous personal stake in biblical literalism.The 1999 remake has Scott defending literalism as the rational position, with Lemon dancing about railing against religious belief. This interpretation is neither true to the original trial, the text of the play, nor to the issues involved.In my review of the original I've note the historical inaccuracies of the play, which are no more bothersome than the impossibility of cloning dinosaurs from mosquito blood meals in Jurassic.I wish someone would do a play based on the Dover trial: the Nova special shows its inherent drama.

It would be hard to botch "Inherit the Wind," especially with this cast. Lemmon is not as great as Spencer Tracy in the original movie-- but then who would be? However, George Scott Scott far surpasses Frederick March. Scott is the best Brady I have seen in numerous versions of the play/movie, and the ONLY one who managed to make Brady a sympathetic character and not merely a buffoon. Wonderful, too-frequently-seen Piper Laurie makes a great deal of the relatively thankless role of Mrs. Brady. What a terrible waste that Hollywood didn't know what to do with her. After "Until They Sail," especially "The Hustler," and various other roles leading and supporting, she should have been a major star. One can only hope that she chose to pursue a private life rather than a career.In the political climate of today--2005--"Inherit the Wind" has a great deal to say. Is anyone listening?

Although my one-line summary says it's great for a history classroom, which of course it is, I actually watched it in government class. It is about the trial of John Scopes who had been arrested for teaching the evolution of human beings and saying that they evolved rather than were created by God. This is a pretty weird law and in America (the land of free speech). This was something that they would've done to you back in the Middle Ages. I mean this story takes place in the 1920's for Heaven sakes. Certainly by that time we knew more about science to believe that humans evolved over a period of time. This was a pretty good movie and I think that all history students should watch it.

Showtime has really outdone themselves this time, with Inherit the Wind. The movie was factual, interesting, and with some of the best actors around. Jack Lemmon and George C.Scott did some of the finest courtroom drama I've seen in a long time. Tom Everett Scott did a wonderful job with what little he had. The only flaw in the movie is that the part of the teacher, was not big enough, they did not give Tom Everett Scott the chance to show his stuff.