When California’s Proposition 8 revokes the right for same-sex couples to marry, an unlikely legal “dream team” emerges to challenge it. The two lead attorneys, David Boies and Ted Olson, are well prepared to take the fight against Prop 8 to the U.S. Supreme Court, having argued the Bush v. Gore case in 2000—on opposing sides. The plaintiffs, two men and two women who wish to marry, find themselves the targets of vicious personal attacks at home and nerve-wracking cross-examinations in court. While personalities take the front seat in Ben Cotner and Ryan White’s courtroom saga, the complex legal issues are carefully and lucidly presented. The directors’ amazing access to the legal team’s planning sessions and their sensitive portraits of the two couples show the fight both as a quest for justice on the grandest stage of government and for acceptance, long-overdue, on every street in every neighborhood across the country.  MM