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Class Action is a 1991 American drama thriller film directed by Michael Apted. Gene Hackman and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio star; Laurence Fishburne, Colin Friels, Fred Dalton Thompson, and Donald Moffat are also featured. The film was entered into the 17th Moscow International Film Festival.
The story is about a lawsuit concerning injuries caused by a defective automobile. The suit takes on a personal dimension because the injured plaintiff's attorney, Jedediah Tucker Ward (Gene Hackman) discovers that the automobile manufacturer's attorney Maggie Ward (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) is his estranged daughter.
Jedediah Ward is a liberal civil rights lawyer who has based his career on helping people avoid being taken for a ride by the rich and powerful; he's pursued principle at the expense of profit, though he has a bad habit of not following up on his clients after their cases are settled.
Jed's daughter, Maggie, has had a bad relationship with her father ever since she discovered that he was cheating on her mother, Estelle (Joanna Merlin), and while she also has made a career in law, she has taken a very different professional route by working for a high-powered corporate law firm and has adopted a self-interested political agenda.
(Well, well, well)
(Well, well, well)
Well, well, well
Look who's home
My, I thought you didn't gonna make it tonight, honey
Oh, me?
Oh yes, I'm getting ready to go out
Oh no, no, no
No, I know you didn't think I was staying home again
tonight
Oh no, brother, I can see
I'm gonna have to explain something to you
Oh, it's no like that anymore
Don't you understand that?
Don't you realize it yet?
Maybe I can make you understand with these few words?
I'll try to make it as brief as possible
(Well, well, well)
(Well, well, well)
I can't take the hearbreak of you leaving me again
And I'm not the one I was back then, no, no, no, no
One thing I can't take is to sit home all alone
Do what you like, my dear, but I'm not staying home
(Night and day) I was patient
But I've had all I could take (All I can take)
(One night the time is right)
Maybe I'll find a friend to spend the weekend
(Goin' out, but the chance ain't wide)
Goin' to find a friend to spend the weekend
(Tonight is partytime, it's partytime tonight)
(Tonight is partytime, it's partytime tonight)
(Tonight is partytime, it's partytime tonight)
(Tonight is partytime, it's partytime tonight)
Baby, don't see the love 'cause it was never, never
here before
You close your eyes and I'm closing the door
One thing I can't take is to sit home all alone
Do what you like, my dear, but you see I'm not stayin'
home
'Cause night and day I was patient
But I've had all I could take
(Tonight's the night the time is right)
Maybe I'll find a friend to spend the weekend
(Goin' out, but the chance ain't wide)
I'm goin' to find, to find someone, someone to spend
the night, baby
(Tonight is partytime, it's partytime tonight) (I said
tonight, baby)
(Tonight is partytime, it's partytime tonight) (I said
tonight, baby)
(Tonight is partytime, it's partytime tonight) (I said
tonight, baby)
(Tonight is partytime, it's partytime tonight)
Too-too-too, too-toorooroo-tooroo, gotta go out
Too-too-too, too-toorooroo-tootooroo (Hey, hey, hey)
Too-too-too, too-toorooroo-tooroo, gotta go out
Too-too-too, too-toorooroo-tootooroo
'Cause night and day, you see, baby, I was patient
But I've had all I could take (I've had all I could
take now)
Night and day (Oh yeah, yeah)
But I've had all I could take (I've had all I could
take)
(Tonight's the night the time is right)
Maybe I'll find someone, somebody who want my body,
baby
(Goin' out, but the chance ain't wide)
I'm goin' to find someone to spend the night
(Tonight is partytime, it's partytime tonight)
(Tonight is partytime, it's partytime tonight) (Oh yes,
it is)
(Tonight is partytime, it's partytime tonight) (That's
right, baby)
(Tonight is partytime, it's partytime tonight)