Nuts (1987): Cast, Box Office & Plot

In a tense courtroom drama with sharp moral questions, Claudia Draper, Barbra Streisand, kills Allen Green in self-defense, a moment that sets off a collision between personal history, public judgment, and the harsh gaze of the legal system. Her mother Rose Kirk, Maureen Stapleton, and stepfather Arthur Kirk, Karl Malden, scramble to shield the family by seeking to declare Claudia mentally incompetent, hoping to bury the incident under the veneer of illness rather than a courtroom verdict. Yet Claudia is fiercely determined not to disappear into a mental institution; she wants to be seen and heard on her own terms, and she fights to be deemed fit to stand trial.