* Philadelphia (1993): He plays a lawyer who takes on the case of a gay man (played by Tom Hanks) who is fired from his job after being diagnosed with AIDS.
* A Time to Kill (1996): He plays a lawyer in the American South who defends a black man accused of killing two white men who raped his young daughter.
* The Hurricane (1999): He plays Rubin Carter, a boxer wrongly convicted of murder, who is represented by a lawyer trying to get him exonerated.
* John Q (2002): He plays a desperate father who takes a hospital hostage when his son needs a life-saving heart transplant but can't afford it.
* Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017): He plays a brilliant but eccentric lawyer who struggles to adapt to the changing legal landscape.
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