Pazza

The play debuted on Broadway in 1980 and was later adapted into a film by Tom Topor, with Barbra Streisand in the role of Claudia Draper, a high-class call girl accused of murdering an elderly client. Her family, in order to prevent Claudia from serving twenty-five years in prison, tries to have her declared “mentally incompetent” so they can commit her to a psychiatric institution. Claudia rejects the family lawyer and chooses a public defender, Aaron Levinsky, who helps her reveal the dark family dynamics that led her to commit the crime.