The Seven Minutes

A bookstore owner is arrested for selling a copy of "the most obscene piece of pornography ever written." The notorious work- telling a woman's thoughts during seven minutes of sexual intercourse- is condemned not only for obscenity, but for having driven a respectable college boy to brutal rape and murder. Overnight, the trial becomes a battleground where censors and anti-censors meet in open combat. At the center of the storm is Michael Barrett, lawyer for the defense. In his struggle to save the book, the trial, and his own future, Barrett encounters a gallery of unforgettable characters- the leering producers of filthy stag films, a sexually permissive society girl, a ruthless electronics tycoon... All are caught up in this dramatic conflict over sexual freedom, perversion, nudity, obscenity, and human rights.