Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: story is about lawsuit concerning injuries caused by defective automobile, Fact2: liberal civil rights lawyer has based career, Fact3: people avoid being taken for ride by rich and powerful, Fact4: Jed 's daughter has had bad relationship with father, Fact5: Jed has taken different professional route by working for high-powered corporate law firm
Output (English): The story is about a lawsuit concerning injuries caused by a defective automobile. The suit takes on a personal dimension because the injured plaintiffs attorney, Jedediah Tucker Ward Gene Hackman discovers that the automobile manufacturers attorney Maggie Ward Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is his estranged daughter. Jedediah Ward is a liberal civil rights lawyer who has based his career on helping people avoid being taken for a ride by the rich and powerful; hes pursued principle at the expense of profit, though he has a bad habit of not following up on his clients after their cases are settled. Jeds daughter, Maggie, has had a bad relationship with her father ever since she discovered that he was cheating on her mother, Estelle Joanna Merlin, and while she also has made a career in law, she has taken a very different professional route by working for a highpowered corporate law firm and has adopted a selfinterested political agenda. Jed is hired to help field a lawsuit against a major auto manufacturer whose station wagons have a dangerous propensity to explode on impact while making a left turn, but while his research indicates he has an all but airtight case against them, the case becomes more complicated for him when he discovers that Maggie is representing the firm hes suing. The auto manufacturer in the film also utilizes a beancounting approach to risk management, whereby the projections of actuaries for probable deaths and injured carowners is weighed against the cost of retooling and remanufacturing the car without the defect exploding gas tanks with the resulting decision to keep the car asis to positively benefit short term profitability.