everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

This TV series is my favorite golden oldie TV series in my young days. Recently I have bought "the paper chase,TV series season 1 and 2" from Amazon. But, unfortunately, English subtitles or captions has not seen there.. I need the English subtitles for well understanding the contents of paper chase TV show. Please let me know if someone have English subtitles of season 1 and 2... John Houseman's character of the law professor Charles W. Kingsfied was very impressed by me in young days in 1970s. Although scholastic to a degree it also had touches of humor. The show spans generations too. Most can relate better to the real people of the series over the movie.

I agree with the positive reviews. I think the series was amazing. I loved the book (yes, it was a book), the movie, and the series, both the CBS version and the Showtime version. They were all great, but the Showtime version was the best.I saw the original film when I was in high school. After seeing the movie, I read the book (written by John Jay Osborn, Jr.). Those were two things that made me want to go to law school. I eventually did, but not until I was in my early 30s.I don't know what to add beyond what has already been said. Houseman's Kingsfield was the archetype law professor. I never had a professor that was anything like him, thank goodness, but I did have a lot of respect for my own Contracts professor.If the show is not available on DVD, it should be. If you haven't seen it, and there's any other way of watching it, give it a shot.

I'm watching the second series from SHO. On a technical level, the cinematography is not as good as that from the CBS show. The colors are reddish, the focus is softer, the grain is very high and the lighting is dimmer. This could be the transfer to DVD. I never saw the show as originally broadcast so I have no basis to compare. Some DVD reviewers have touched on this. Be that as it may, the show is excellent and Houseman's performances are a joy to watch. (I developed an odd affection to Seals & Crofts schmaltzy theme song watching the CBS version--it even became an earworm--but the "Ivy League" instrumental opener of the SHO version is far more appropriate.) What's really great is the series moving from CBS to SHO with all of the primary leads five years later! Has any series ever duplicated this feat? On the downside, some of the CBS episodes really irritated me enough to take a break from viewing it. Hart constantly injecting himself into people's problems, usually to his own detriment, got very annoying and Bell was an exasperating, selfish idiot. The episode in which Hart and Bell were locked in Kingsfield's office closet during the weekend due to Bell's stupid scheme was beyond bad (and the writers didn't get it that people have to urinate?). Those few clunkers aside, great show, the kind that's hard to find today.

I remember this series for a bit of a quirky reason. I was a law student (SMU in Dallas) and entered in the Fall of 1983, the same year Showtime picked this up and ran it. Because of that timing, "Hart" and gang were progressing through law school at the same time as me and my classmates, so we would get together after episodes and critique! I liked the show and it was fairly reflective of law school reality and life. (Not to pick nits, but one area was pretty far off - the law review "office." I wasn't on law review, but certainly friends were and the show portrayed it as like a major metropolitan daily newspaper! It was the opposite end of that spectrum, in reality! The law reviews come out about 3 times a year and students spend their time in the library "cite checking" not running into the law review offices to "beat the presses"! But I digress . . .) I do think the movie was certainly more powerful, and I pull that out about once every 3 or 4 years, but the images bring back some not too pleasant memories! Anyway, I would like to get a copy of the complete series somewhere, but can only find the first two seasons online. Any suggestions??