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Overview

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Director:
Gary Fleder
Writers (WGA):
John Grisham (novel)
Brian Koppelman (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
17 October 2003 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Thriller more
Tagline:
Trials are too important to be decided by juries.
Plot:
A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
3 nominations more
User Comments:
Awesome Performances by Hackman, Cusack, Hoffman & Weisz. more (339 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

John Cusack ... Nicholas Easter

Gene Hackman ... Rankin Fitch

Dustin Hoffman ... Wendell Rohr

Rachel Weisz ... Marlee

Bruce Davison ... Durwood Cable

Bruce McGill ... Judge Harkin

Jeremy Piven ... Lawrence Green

Nick Searcy ... Doyle

Stanley Anderson ... Henry Jankle

Cliff Curtis ... Frank Herrera

Nestor Serrano ... Janovich

Leland Orser ... Lamb

Jennifer Beals ... Vanessa Lembeck
Gerry Bamman ... Herman Grimes

Joanna Going ... Celeste Wood
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for violence, language and thematic elements.
Runtime:
127 min
Country:
USA
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
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DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

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Trivia:
This is the 10th movie starring both John Cusack and Jeremy Piven. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Rankin Fitch meets the gun company guy who is shooting clay pigeons, near the end of the conversation, the gun company guy starts to put on his safety glasses and says "Pull" before he has time to shoot, but in the next shot, he is fully prepared, and hits the target in the air. more
Quotes:
Frank Herrera: [On nominating Herman for foreman] But...
Eddie Weese: But he's blind, man. So what? So is justice, right?
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Fear of Clowns (2004) (V) more
Soundtrack:
A Bitter Tree more

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46 out of 62 people found the following comment useful.
Awesome Performances by Hackman, Cusack, Hoffman & Weisz., 4 December 2004
Author: BigHardcoreRed from Calimesa, California

Not since Primal Fear have I seen a court room thriller that was really good. Given the actors, I suppose you can't really go wrong. Usually I can find some actor or actress that wasn't very good, bothered me in some way or was flat out horrible. This movie featured superb acting by all those involved. Even Jeremy Piven (who I can't help but picture as the Dean in Old School or his characters from PCU or Very Bad Things) delivered a respectable performance, and very different from the other movies mentioned.

Runaway Jury doesn't throw in a lot of needless plot twists and unexpected happenings just for the sake of throwing off or fooling the viewer. In fact, it pretty much goes in the direction you think it will, with only a couple of exceptions which are needed.

I'm usually the type that likes my movies to get it all done in around 90 minutes or so. Seems to me that most movies that go over 2 hours have a lot of needless "filler" material for no real reason, which, more often than not, results in slow, dragging scenes in the movie or just a boring movie altogether. This particular movie clocked in at just over 2 hours and used every minute wisely. Nothing boring and nothing seemed to drag on forever. I found the beginning with the jury selection particularly interesting. I thought the whole concept of knowing how to get exactly who you want on your jury, even before they actually show up to jury duty, was a little mind blowing. After seeing those scenes, I knew it was going to be a great movie. I highly recommend this movie, especially if you enjoyed movies like Primal Fear, although this is a completely different movie with different kinds of surprises.

Overall, Gene Hackman stole the show in this one and proves why he's been working in movies and television for over 40 years now. I give this 9 out of 10.

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