Nuts

“Mad As In Angry. Or Just Plain... NUTS”

Claudia Draper (Barbra Streisand), a high-class call girl charged with murder, is being declared mentally incompetent so she never has to stand trial. She refuses, and the public defender Aaron Levinsky (Richard Dreyfuss) is left to argue her case. Martin Ritt keeps the camera inside a courtroom and a hospital, where Claudia, in a plain institutional room, talks over everyone who tries to speak for her.