The Gingerbread Man

Rick Magruder is a successful defense attorney in Savannah, Georgia, divorced and raising two young children. After meeting Mallory Doss, a waitress, at a party, he begins a relationship with her and is drawn into her troubles: she says her father, Dixon, has harassed her for years. Magruder intervenes on her behalf, a decision that puts his reputation, his family and his own safety at risk as events spin beyond his control.

The Gingerbread Man was released in 1998 and runs 114 minutes. Robert Altman directed it, the sixteenth of the twenty-one films he directed in chronological order, following Prêt-à-Porter and preceding Cookie's Fortune. The screenplay is credited to Clyde Hayes, and Jeremy Tannenbaum produced. Kenneth Branagh plays Rick Magruder, with Embeth Davidtz as Mallory Doss, Robert Downey Jr. as Clyde Pell, Daryl Hannah as Lois Harlan, Tom Berenger as Pete Randle and Famke Janssen as Leeanne Magruder. The credited cast numbers twenty-nine.

Made for a budget of 25 million dollars, the film returned about 2 million dollars worldwide. On TMDB it holds a rating of 5.6 out of 10 from 181 votes, while the critics' rating stands at 6.2 out of 10 from 47 reviews, slightly above the audience score.