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Dec. 1, 2014

Reel Law

"[Y]ou and your self-righteous code of the goddamn streets. Did it pull you out of a 30-year stint in only five years? No, it didn't, I did. ... [Y]our whole goddamn world is this big, and there's only one rule: You save your own ass."

?Lawyer David Kleinfeld (Sean Penn, right) dresses down client Carlito Brigante (Al Pacino) as he heads back to a life on the street in Carlito's Way (1993).