text: In 1990 , he wrote The Music Box , a movie about an American lawyer who defends her Hungarian immigrant father when he is accused of Nazi war crimes .
  
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  The woman was unable to defend her father 's case , and the movie ends sadly with her career ending in similar failure ; she is seen as biased , shady , and willing to lie to help her family stay out of jail rather than consistently defend the truth .