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    The Good Wife

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    TV Series    2009     Criminal drama    
    USA

    Julianna Margulies is a wife and mother who must assume full responsibility for her family and re-enter the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail. Pushing aside the betrayal and crushing public humiliation caused by her husband Peter (Chris Noth), Alicia Florrick (Margulies) starts over by pursuing her original career as a defense attorney. As a junior associate at a prestigious Chicago law firm, she joins her longtime friend, former law school classmate and firm partner Will Gardner (Josh Charles), who is interested to see how Alicia will perform after 13 years out of the courtroom. Alicia is grateful the firm's top litigator, Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski), offers to mentor her but discovers the offer has conditions and realizes she's going to need to succeed on her own merit. Alicia's main competition among the firm's 20-something new recruits is Cary (Matt Czuchry), a recent Harvard grad who is affable on the surface, but will use any means to ensure that he, not Alicia, secures the one full-time associate position that's available. Fortunately, Alicia finds an ally in Kalinda (Archie Panjabi), the firm's tough in-house investigator. Gaining confidence every day, Alicia transforms herself from embarrassed politician's scorned wife to resilient career woman, especially for the sake of providing a stable home for her children, 14-year-old Zach (Graham Phillips) and 13-year-old Grace (Makenzie Vega). For the first time in years, Alicia trades in her identity as the "good wife" and takes charge of her own destiny.

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    Julianna Margulies
    Matt Czuchry
    Christine Baranski
    Archie Panjabi
    Alan Cumming
    Josh Charles
    Chris Noth
    Graham Phillips
    Matthew Goode
    Michael J. Fox
    Renée Elise Goldsberry
    Cush Jumbo
    Mike Colter
    Jeffrey Dean Morgan
    Titus Welliver
    Nathan Lane
    Christina Ricci
    Jason Biggs
    Leelee Sobieski
    Kyle MacLachlan
    Parker Posey
    Connie Nielsen
    Annabella Sciorra
    Oliver Platt
    Will Patton
    David Paymer
    Amanda Peet
    Bob Balaban
    Lili Taylor
    Matthew Lillard
    Jeffrey Tambor
    Method Man
    Dagmara Dominczyk
    Matthew Perry
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