The Warrior Class

{{Infobox film

| name = The Warrior Class

| image = The Warrior Class.jpg

| caption = Promotional poster

| director = Alan Hruska

| writer = Alan Hruska

| producer = {{Plainlist|

Laird Adamson
Petina Cole
Jill Footlick
Rachel Peters

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| starring = {{Plainlist|

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| cinematography = John Thomas

| editing = Marc Laub

| music = Andy Farber

| studio = {{Plainlist|

Archer Entertainment
The Talking Pictures Company

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| distributor = Echo Bridge Home Entertainment

| released = {{Film date|2007|02|06}}

| runtime = 110 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

}}

The Warrior Class is a 2007 American legal thriller film written and directed by Alan Hruska. It stars Anson Mount, Erica Leerhsen, Robert Vaughn, Jake Weber, Jamey Sheridan, and Dan Hedaya. It follows a rookie lawyer who gets in over his head when he falls for the wife of a mafia boss he is assigned to prosecute.

The trials in The Warrior Class were based loosely on two cases Hruska tried as a young lawyer.{{cite interview|last=Moldavsky|first=Goldy|title=Alan Hruska Attends his Reunion|work=MovieMaker|date=March 5, 2009|url=https://www.moviemaker.com/alan-hruska-reunion-yale-secret-society-20090303/|access-date=July 9, 2023}} The film was finished in 2004, and premiered at the Hamptons International Film Festival in 2005.{{cite web|url=https://alanhruska.com/about|title=Alan Hruska {{!}} Biography|website=Alan Hruska|access-date=July 9, 2023|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331042306/https://alanhruska.com/about|archive-date=March 31, 2023}} It was released on DVD on February 6, 2007.

Plot

Rookie lawyer Alec Brno has just been assigned the case of his career: exposing a billion-dollar oil scam led by a ruthless mafia boss, Phil Anwar. When he reluctantly falls for Phil's beautiful but drug-addicted wife, Annie Sullivan, who is also his key witness, Alec soon realizes that all the legal savvy in the world can't protect him from the dangerous reality of mob violence. In a system where criminals often walk free, sometimes courtroom warriors must take the battle for justice into their own hands.

Cast

{{Cast listing|

Anson Mount as Alec Brno
Erica Leerhsen as Annie Sullivan
Robert Vaughn as Ben Braddock
Jake Weber as Phil Anwar
Jamey Sheridan as Frank Macalister
Dan Hedaya as General Rand
Pedro Barreira as Christian
Sage Doviak as Sarah Anwar
Mark Blum as Hal Richardson
Keith Randolph Smith as Harvey Grand
Tracie Thoms as Thelma Rosbach
Rick Stear as Jed
Jerry Walsh as Bailiff
Stephen Barker Turner as Whitman Poole
David Thornton as Ray Sancerre
Daniel Oreskes as Vito
Clark Middleton as Carl Raffon
Michael Medeiros as Sid Kline
Marylouise Burke as Madge
Sam Coppola as Abe Rosencranz
John Cunningham as J.J. Tierney
Ramsey Faragallah as Dr. Patel
Kit Flanagan as Brett Creighton
Bill Hunter as Larry Stahl
Adam LeFevre as Jim Velsor
Christopher Wynkoop as Judge Locklear
Thom Christopher as Judge Kaye
Benja K. Thomas as Proprietress
Allen McCullough as Police Officer
Gray Madder as O.C.D. Patient
Dominic Marcus as Gym Reporter
Richard Poe as Magistrate
Ed Schiff as District Attorney

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Reception

=Critical response=

Ronnie Scheib of Variety stated that "strong cast builds considerable goodwill toward the narrative, but the script's internal logic is as formulaic and half-baked as the pic's action is blocky and unconvincing."{{cite news|last=Scheib|first=Ronnie|date=November 13, 2005|title=The Warrior Class|url=https://variety.com/2005/film/reviews/the-warrior-class-1200520347/amp/|work=Variety|access-date=July 9, 2023}}