IN ‘WORTH,’ WEIGHING THE PERSONAL LOSSES OF 9/11
Sep 10, 2021
2 minutes
“What is life worth?” asks Washington lawyer Kenneth J. Feinberg (Michael Keaton) in the opening scenes of the based-on-a-true-story drama “Worth,” while writing the question on a blackboard for a room full of law school students.
To Feinberg, it’s not a trick question or a moral one. It’s a calculation. There are legal parameters and predictions of future earning power that dictate the answer.
“The answer is a
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