Judging Amy

Year

1999

Genre

Drama

Country

USA

Director

Actors

Amy Brenneman, Richard T. Jones, Jessica Tuck, Marcus Giamatti, Karle Warren, Tyne Daly, Jillian Armenante, Timothy Omundson, Dan Futterman, Kevin Rahm

Description

A family drama focused on three generations of women living together in Hartford, Connecticut. Amy Brenneman plays Amy Gray, who left New York City behind and now works as a family court judge. Karle Warren plays Lauren, Amy's daughter; Tyne Daly is Maxine, Amy's tough, opinionated mother.

Episodes

• Season 1: 1. Pilot (1999). Ten years after her marriage to New Yorker Michael Madison, corporate lawyer Amy Gray is separated, living back in Connecticut at her mother Maxine Gray's with pre-teen daughter Lauren, who misses daddy. Amy starts sitting in as a novice judge in the Hartford County Superior Court family law division. She soon feels out of her depth, professionally, and accepts advice from her mother, officially retired after 28 years as social worker but 'counseling' full time, while resenting being mothered. Also living at home is Amy's sensitive brother, unemployed literature ...
• Season 1: 2. Short Calendar (1999).
• Season 1: 3. Trial By Jury (1999). Ma finally admits the car she inherited from dad has had its time, but allows Peter to talk her out of settling for one that she and Vincent agreed on. Amy dumps her daughter's sleepover guests on ma, who shamelessly passes the kids on to Vincent. He takes this as proof that she never took his writing ambition seriously. Filling in for a sick judge, Amy presides over her first-ever, civilian jury trial, about minor Josh Spellman, who shot his girlfriend, Janette Harper, with his parents' gun, for which they may have to pay damages if held negligent.
• Season 1: 4. Victim Soul (1999). In the hardware-store Vincent meets a woman, painter Chris Osborne, who offers him a date and to pay him for publicity copy-writing. Vincent isn't even put off when he meets her teenage daughter, Lori. The presiding judge dumps a dangerous case on Amy: Thomas Bell, a 10 year comatose boy, supposed to work wonders and suffering stigmata in his grandmother's care, who, according to the physician suffers under abusive attention. However the case is decided by an unexpected maneuver beyond Amy's control.
• Season 1: 5. Last Tango In Hartford (1999).
• Season 1: 6. Witch Hunt (1999). Vincent's former professor and fan, Barnett, puts him in touch with literary agent Hilary Baker, someone Vincent considers pure evil since their youth, and indeed she changes the rules during the game. Amy judges the case of a father who demands custody of the 8 year old son he left, many years back, in the mother's custody. He claims she's a wicked witch, actually of the Wiccan variety; but she is scorned by an official Wicca interests organization. Lauren refuses to participate in Halloween after listening to scary stories told by a schoolboy, yet Amy defends (in ...
• Season 1: 7. An Impartial Bias (1999). Vincent accepts an English writing teaching position for the income, but doubts if it fits his vocation as an author. He wonders what made his dad - whom he lost very young- work in the insurance field, as brother Peter now does enthusiastically, despite their father's acceptance for medical school. Maxine fights a deaf supervisor's claim to end the guardianship of big brother Paul Dexter, who alas never learned sign language, over young Kevin, who refuses to learn any more after systematic peer abuse at school, neglected by DCS till then. Amy hears a claim by an old ...
• Season 1: 8. Near Death Experience (1999). Vincent intervenes when a woman is attacked outside the grocery store and is shot, within an inch of permanent disaster, yet refuses to be mothered. With some difficulty he picks the shooter from a line-up, who will also be charged for a previous murder. Amy grants divorced Jewish father Voci to have his son circumcised but considers the mother's breast-feeding to ridiculous to rule on. Maxine finds otherwise fine parents believe in abduction by aliens.
• Season 1: 9. Persistence Of Tectonics, The (1999). Maxine refuses to cook for Thanksgiving the 40th year in a row and is most skeptic when Amy announces she'll cook instead to give Lauren a good first one in Hatford, when her dad Michael Cassidy is visiting; they agree to formalize their divorce. Vincent tries to avoid his ex-agent and scorned seducer Hilary Baker at the publisher's party, only to find she viciously set up gay fellow author Justin Hopkins, an instant friend, as his 'mate'. Amy has to stand in for a judge on 'family emergency' and is ruthless on model students Nathan Larsen and Jonathan Wanderley from ...
• Season 1: 10. Crowded House (1999). Vincent finally has a perspective: publisher Algonquin wants to publish his short stories, if he can add a 'killer story' to bind the collection, in only four days. He retracts his first attempt, being to personal, containing his brother Peter's marital infertility-drama causing the wife Gillian to take 'a break' living with Maxine, who bullies young colleague Phil(ip), who can't help the workload either. Amy is pissed-off another medical excuse allows a judge to dump on her a teacher-stabbing by an abused foster child with 19 personalities, ably prosecuted by ...
• Season 1: 11. Presumed Innocent (1999).
• Season 1: 12. Spoil The Child (2000). Amy orders an attorney to leave criminal court case to attend her triple juvenile case. Despite his initial indignation, the judge supports an offer made to her to transfer to the criminal justice, which would be for at least a year, but dose she want cases 'when it's already too late'? Dr. Brent Reynolds is charged for taking the belt to his self-admittedly willful son Seth's backside a few times a week. Vincent counsels Donna Kozlowski about disappointing conjugal visits.
• Season 1: 13. Zero To Sixty (2000).
• Season 1: 14. Shaken, Not Stirred (2000).
• Season 1: 15. Culture Clash (2000). The Gray family is excited now Vincent's first book is suddenly in the stores, but he worries about any bad criticism he might get, especially in the New York Times, as the negative comments would break his career rather then launch it. Amy tries a case where a German-descended father's anti-German wife, who calls him a Nazi, drove him to flee with their children to Germany, and a claim by an accused woman to have been asked to satisfy a judge 'orally' in chambers. Meanwhile Maxine has to put up Peter's rather arrogant prospective adoption child's pregnant mother.
• Season 1: 16. Wee Hours, The (2000). Vincent has writer's block, even Donna's poem seems more inspired, so he postulates for another reporter cadetship. Amy looses control emotionally during a custody trial, while unable to discipline Lauren, and even dreams of kissing her clerk. Maxine finds out the root is missing a man and diagnoses a sleepwalking youngest boy in a family of five as victim of torturous tickling.
• Season 1: 17. Drawing The Line (2000). Vincent is now a Hartford Examiner reporter, but objects to a sensationalist assignment to cover a case about a house-father killed while committing a crime cross-dressed; Maxine knew him and scolds all modern journalism. Amy can't handle Lauren making friends with her ex's new partner, who allows the girl to pierce her ears. Amy accepted a class in Yale law school but doesn't keep her promises in class and rants about family law being the noblest, most demanding branch and court job. Maxine finds re-offending problem boy Joe Broussard is abused by reputable child ...
• Season 1: 18. Human Touch (2000).
• Season 1: 19. Out-of-Towners, The (2000).
• Season 1: 20. God Thing, The (2000). At the trial, Liz twists the truth to get 'just' revenge and blames honest lover Vincent for 'not supporting' her - they break up. Amy is ruthless on two otherwise upright students from fine homes who claim the rape-drug Rohypnol they gave a girl was an ill-considered 'experiment'. Maxine has a millionaire courter, Jared Duff, who made a fortune inventing a search engine, and doubts whether to stay on in charge of child welfare.
• Season 1: 21. Gray Vs. Gray (2000).
• Season 1: 22. Not With A Whimper (2000).
• Season 1: 23. Blast From The Past (2000).
• Season 2: 1. Zero Tolerance (2000).
• Season 2: 2. You're Not The Boss Of Me (2000).
• Season 2: 3. Instincts (2000).
• Season 2: 4. Convictions (2000).
• Season 2: 5. Unnecessary Roughness (2000).
• Season 2: 6. Burden Of Perspective, The (2000).
• Season 2: 7. Dog Days (2000).
• Season 2: 8. Waterworld (2000).
• Season 2: 9. Undertow, The (2001).
• Season 2: 10. Adoption Day (2001).
• Season 2: 11. Claw Is Our Master, The (2001).
• Season 2: 12. 8 1/2 Narrow (2001).
• Season 2: 13. Beginning, The End And The Murky Middle, The (2001).
• Season 2: 14. One For The Road (2001).
• Season 2: 15. Treachery Of Compromise, The (2001).
• Season 2: 16. Everybody Falls Down (2001).
• Season 2: 17. Romeo And Juliet Must Die - Well, Maybe Just Juliet (2001).
• Season 2: 18. Unforgiven, The (2001).
• Season 2: 19. Between The Wanting And The Getting (2001).
• Season 2: 20. Grounded (2001).
• Season 2: 21. Redheaded Stepchild (2001).
• Season 2: 22. Hold On Tight (2001).
• Season 3: 1. Last Word, The (2001).
• Season 3: 2. Off The Grid (2001).
• Season 3: 3. Darkness For Light (2001).
• Season 3: 4. Right Thing To Do, The (2001).
• Season 3: 5. Look Closer (2001).
• Season 3: 6. Unbearable Lightness Of Being Family, The (2001).
• Season 3: 7. Imbroglio (2001).
• Season 3: 8. Rights Of Passage (2001).
• Season 3: 9. Surprised By Gravity (2001).
• Season 3: 10. Beating The Bounds (2001).
• Season 3: 11. Crime & Puzzlement (2001).
• Season 3: 12. Who Shot Dick? (2002).
• Season 3: 13. Cook Of The Money Pot, The (2002).
• Season 3: 14. Extinction Of The Dinosaurs, The (2002).
• Season 3: 15. Can They Do That With Vegetables? (2002).
• Season 3: 16. Women In Cacti With A Curled Up Rat (2002).
• Season 3: 17. Not Stumbling, But Dancing (2002).
• Season 3: 18. Justice League Of America, The (2002).
• Season 3: 19. Men Aren't Monsters (2002).
• Season 3: 20. Bottle Show, The (2002).
• Season 3: 21. Tidal Wave (2002).
• Season 3: 22. Boston Terriers From France (2002).
• Season 3: 23. Nobody Expects The Spanish Inquisition (2002).
• Season 3: 24. Come Back Soon (2002).
• Season 4: 1. Lost In The System (2002).
• Season 4: 2. Thursday's Child (2002).
• Season 4: 3. Every Stranger's Face I See (2002).
• Season 4: 4. Frozen Zone, The (2002).
• Season 4: 5. Cause For Alarm (2002).
• Season 4: 6. Roses And Truth (2002).
• Season 4: 7. Damage Control (2002).
• Season 4: 8. Pretty Good Day, A (2002).
• Season 4: 9. Boys To Men (2002).
• Season 4: 10. People Of The Lie (2002).
• Season 4: 11. Lost And Found (2002).
• Season 4: 12. Ye Olde Freedom Inn (2003).
• Season 4: 13. Best Interests Of The Child, The (2003).
• Season 4: 14. Wild Card (2003).
• Season 4: 15. Maxine Interrupted (2003).
• Season 4: 16. Sixteen Going On Seventeen (2003).
• Season 4: 17. Judging Eric (2003).
• Season 4: 18. Looking For Quarters (2003).
• Season 4: 19. Just Say Oops (2003).
• Season 4: 20. Requiem (2003). Stu has convinced Amy to go on a camping trip with him, while Maxine is making plans to bring wedding forward to this weekend at her house. Maxine is devastated when Charles appears at work to tell her Jared has had a heart attack and died. Maxine does not want anyone to comfort her and lashes out at everyone around her. Charles is having trouble getting Jared body returned from China and Peter and Charles fight over how to deal with this. A slightly more composed Maxine takes everyone to the dinner in which she and Jared first met for a highly emotive memorial ...
• Season 4: 21. Picture Of Perfect (2003).
• Season 4: 22. CSO: Hartford (2003).
• Season 4: 23. Marry, Marry Quite Contrary (2003).
• Season 4: 24. Shock And Awe (2003).
• Season 5: 1. Motion Sickness (2003).
• Season 5: 2. Going Down (2003).
• Season 5: 3. Ex Parte Of Five (2003).
• Season 5: 4. Tricks Of The Trade (2003).
• Season 5: 5. Wrong Man, The (2003).
• Season 5: 6. Into The Fire (2003).
• Season 5: 7. Kilt Trip (2003).
• Season 5: 8. Long Goodbye, The (2003).
• Season 5: 9. Rumspringa (2003).
• Season 5: 10. Sex And The Single Mother (2003).
• Season 5: 11. Christenings (2004).
• Season 5: 12. Dancing In The Dark (2004).
• Season 5: 13. Sins Of The Father (2004).
• Season 5: 14. Roadhouse Blues (2004).
• Season 5: 15. Werewolves Of Hartford (2004).
• Season 5: 16. Baggage Claim (2004).
• Season 5: 17. Song That Never Ends, The (2004).
• Season 5: 18. Disposable (2004).
• Season 5: 19. Quick And The Dead, The (2004).
• Season 5: 20. Slade's Chophouse (2004).
• Season 5: 21. Predictive Neglect (2004).
• Season 5: 22. My Little Runaway (2004).
• Season 5: 23. Sex, Lies And Expedia.com (2004).
• Season 6: 1. Accountability (2004).
• Season 6: 2. Lullaby (2004).
• Season 6: 3. Legacy (2004).
• Season 6: 4. Consent (2004).
• Season 6: 5. Order And Chaos (2004).
• Season 6: 6. Catching It Early (2004).
• Season 6: 7. Early Winter (2004).
• Season 6: 8. Conditional Surrender (2004).
• Season 6: 9. Silent Era (2005).
• Season 6: 10. Long Run, The (2005). In Amy's juvenile court schoolboy Charley Dane is on trial for stabbing his teacher, who was actually his only true friend who got fired for seeing Charlie after school hours, as a well-meaning substitute for his superficial parents who only wanted a perfect kid to show off... Ma Maxine returns to work, and immediately discovers the baby teenager Zachary Pettit cares for so well is not his kid brother but his own son, abandoned at birth by the teenager mother... Vincent gets emotional and physical bruises when he cares personally for a bright colored drug addict on ...
• Season 6: 11. 10,000 Steps (2005).
• Season 6: 12. You Don't Know Me (2005).
• Season 6: 13. Dream A Little Dream (2005). David and Amy search for their dream house while Amy must decide the fate of a child who murdered his grandfather and Maxine uncovers a child smuggling ring. Vincent must deal with the murder of a 13-year-old girl that happened in front of his eyes.
• Season 6: 14. Happy Borthday (2005). Amy finds it rather difficult to follow her mom's advice and embrace her 40th birthday as a milestone. Meanwhile, Donna is in Amy's court representing a 13-year-old girl (Alexa Nikolas) who accidentally kills her friend named Marsha and another man in a car while they are out on a joyride but shows no remorse for her death; Maxine tries to determine whether two brothers are better off without the presence of their father, an ex-con, in their lives; and Amy receives bad news on her 40th birthday, she has a miscarriage. David Eigenberg guest stars as Jerry Lambert, a ...
• Season 6: 15. Hard To Get (2005).
• Season 6: 16. Paper War, The (2005). While attending a bench and bar dinner, Amy gets into a heated argument with the State Attorney and accuses his office of being politically motivated in regard to the juvenile justice system. As a result, Amy's inundated with requests to move cases out of her court, which causes a litigation nightmare that puts Donna's 17-year-old client at risk of being considered AWOL from the Coast Guard. Meanwhile, Maxine and Sean come up with a creative solution to the housing problem of a recently sober mother who is seeking to regain custody of her children.
• Season 6: 17. New Normal, The (2005). In Amy's courtroom, she adjudicates a case involving two Arab-American Muslim boys, one of whom embraces his religion and culture and the other who is ashamed of his background, after they get into an altercation at their high school. Meanwhile, Crystal goes behind Vincent's back to have him transferred to a different job, which puts a damper on their relationship. Amy is hurt because Lauren doesn't want her to chaperone a school dance. Elsewhere, Maxine tries to teach a sexually promiscuous teenager the dangers of having unprotected sex and spring is in the air - and...
• Season 6: 18. Sorry I Missed You (2005). Amy oversees a case involving a 5-year-old girl who is at the center of a custody battle between the girl's 21-year-old half sister and their parents. She is also trying to get a not-guilty verdict in the Graciela Reyes trial and she then has to deal with Lauren's latest act of rebellion - she's dyed her hair pink! Meanwhile, Maxine tries to broker a deal between a foster and a biological mother of a young boy so that both can keep the child in their lives. Elsewhere, Vincent struggles to work up enthusiasm for his prison writing workshops.
• Season 6: 19. Revolutions Per Minute (2005). Lauren's rebellious attitude continues to test the patience of Amy, who's perturbed when her daughter suddenly becomes a vegetarian. Amy's also annoyed that a certain political strategist won't take no for an answer about her pursuing a senate seat and she tries to find some redeeming qualities in a teenage boy in order to keep him from being tried as an adult after he assaults his mother. Meanwhile, Maxine tries to help a lonely single mom with the difficult responsibility of raising an autistic child and Peter and Gillian work on trust issues in their marriage.
• Season 6: 20. Too Little, Too Late (2005). Maxine is afraid of becoming more than just friends with Ignacio so she introduces her friend Patricia to Ignacio and encourages her to invite him as her escort to a benefit. At the same time as she sets out to prove an arrogant college professor is guilty of spousal abuse. A 15-year-old boy with a criminal record asks Amy to believe that he has turned his life around and that he's innocent of the serious crime he's charged with - attacking an undercover officer who accused him of dealing drugs. Meanwhile, Lauren's participation in a "Meat is Murder" rally gets her ...
• Season 6: 21. Getting Out (2005). Bruce calls Amy's objectivity into question while sentencing a 10-year-old repeat offender. Maxine tries to help a family with multiple special needs children fend off a bank bent on foreclosing on their house as Vincent faces a life and death situation. Good news about Graciela Reyes is tempered by an unfortunate event.
• Season 6: 22. My Name Is Amy Gray... (2005).

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