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The Pelican Brief (1993)
6.4
Ratings: 6.4/10 from 30,975 users
Metascore:
50/100
Reviews: 72 user | 37 critic | 15 from Metacritic.com
A law student uncovers a conspiracy, putting herself and others in danger. Director:Alan J. Pakula |
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| Julia Roberts | ... | ||
| Denzel Washington | ... | ||
| Sam Shepard | ... |
Thomas Callahan
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| John Heard | ... |
Gavin Vereek
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| Tony Goldwyn | ... |
Fletcher Coal
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| James Sikking | ... |
FBI Director Denton Voyles
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| William Atherton | ... |
Bob Gminski
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| Robert Culp | ... |
President
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| Stanley Tucci | ... |
Khamel
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| Hume Cronyn | ... |
Justice Rosenberg
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| John Lithgow | ... |
Smith Keen
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Anthony Heald | ... |
Marty Velmano
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Nicholas Woodeson | ... |
Stump
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| Stanley Anderson | ... |
Edwin Sneller
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| John Finn | ... |
Matthew Barr
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Storyline
Two Supreme Court Justices have been killed. Now a college professor, who clerked for one of the two men, who's also having an affair with one of his students, is given a brief by her, that states who probably, wanted to see these two men dead. He then gives it to one of his friends, who works for the FBI. When the FBI director reads it, he is fascinated by it. One of the president's men who read it, is afraid that if it ever got out, the president could be smeared. So, he advises the president to tell the director to drop it, which he does. But later the professor and the girl were out and he was drunk and when he refused to give her the keys she stepped out of the car. When he started it, it blew up. She then discovers that her place has been burglarized and what was taken were her computer and her disks. Obviously, her brief has someone agitated. She then turns to her boyfriend's friend at the FBI... Written by rcs0411@yahoo.com
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From the author of "The Firm" and "The Client" and the director of "Presumed Innocent" and "All The President's Men." See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated PG-13 for momentary language and some violence See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
(USA) See more »Also Known As:
El informe Pelícano See more »Filming Locations:
Tulane University - 6823 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$16,600,000 (USA)Gross:
$195,000,000 (Worldwide)Company Credits
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Justice Rosenberg: Any of those signs got my name on 'em?
Gray Grantham: Quite a few.
Justice Rosenberg: What do they say?
Gray Grantham: The usual: Death to Rosenberg, Retire Rosenberg, Cut off the oxygen.
Justice Rosenberg: [laughs] That's my favorite. Of course you, Mr Grantham, did pretty good by me your last time out: Rosenberg equals the government over business, the individual over government, the environment over everything. And the Indians? Oh, give 'em whatever they want.
Gray Grantham: Well with all due respects sir, that wasn't my line, that was a quote.
Justice Rosenberg: From one of your unnamed senior White House officials; senior White House son of a bitch I should have said, who got in there by stirring up these people, one against the other. It never fails to amaze me what a man will do to get into the Oval Office.
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Although the Tulane Law School has moved to a new building since this film was released, the room where Julia Roberts and Sam Shepard meet for class early in the move is still a classroom: Jones Hall Rm. 102. See more »Goofs
Revealing mistakes: As the camera panes over the dead body of Chief Justice Rosenberg, he is still breathing. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Justice Rosenberg: Any of those signs got my name on 'em?
Gray Grantham: Quite a few.
Justice Rosenberg: What do they say?
Gray Grantham: The usual: Death to Rosenberg, Retire Rosenberg, Cut off the oxygen.
Justice Rosenberg: [laughs] That's my favorite. Of course you, Mr Grantham, did pretty good by me your last time out: Rosenberg equals the government over business, the individual over government, the environment over everything. And the Indians? Oh, give 'em whatever they want.
Gray Grantham: Well with all due respects sir, that wasn't my line, that was a quote.
Justice Rosenberg: From one of your unnamed senior White House officials; senior White House son of a bitch I should have said, who got in there by stirring up these people, one against the other. It never fails to amaze me what a man will do to get into the Oval Office.
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