According to a story in today's Wall Street Journal by Peter Lattman, the majesty and the horror of the bar exam will soon be coming to a movie house near you:
The soon-to-be released documentary, called "A Lawyer Walks into a Bar," chronicles the lives of six wannabe attorneys as they prepare to take California's bar exam, long considered one of the toughest in the country.
The filmmaker, Eric Chaikin, had earlier made a movie called "Word Wars," about Scrabble fanatics. The Journal says Chaikin believes that the bar exam also requires people to "go through the insane ritual of cramming knowledge into their head."
If you subscribe to the Journal, you can read the brief story, called "'A Lawyer Walks into a Bar' Jumps from Punchline to Silver Screen," here.
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