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Title: The Pelican Brief (1993)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Julia Roberts | ... | Darby Shaw | |
| Denzel Washington | ... | Gray Grantham | |
| Sam Shepard | ... | Thomas Callahan | |
| John Heard | ... | Gavin Vereek | |
| Tony Goldwyn | ... | Fletcher Coal | |
| James Sikking | ... | FBI Director Denton Voyles (as James B. Sikking) | |
| William Atherton | ... | Bob Gminski | |
| Robert Culp | ... | President | |
| Stanley Tucci | ... | Khamel | |
| Hume Cronyn | ... | Justice Rosenberg | |
| John Lithgow | ... | Smith Keen | |
| Anthony Heald | ... | Marty Velmano | |
| Nicholas Woodeson | ... | Stump | |
| Stanley Anderson | ... | Edwin Sneller | |
| John Finn | ... | Matthew Barr | |
Two Supreme Court Justices have been killed. Now a college professor, who clerked for one of the two men and who is 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. He agrees to come meet her but before he does, someone shoots him and takes his ... Written by rcs0411@yahoo.com
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John Grisham's bestseller becomes paranoia thriller directed capably by Alan J. Pakula. "Eager beaver" Louisiana law student Julia Roberts does some home research trying to connect the backgrounds of two Washington, D.C. Supreme Court Justices who were murdered; her theories regarding the two men--who wanted them dead and why--turns out to be scarily accurate. The brief manages to get into the hands of top Presidential aides, and soon a contract is put out on her life. Shady political business is mixed with detective yarn and a (semi) love story between Roberts and stalwart newspaper journalist Denzel Washington, who is excellent. Smoothly done commercial package, well-paced and entertaining, though exceptionally far-fetched (which parlays into the enjoyment factor). Roberts pouts too much, and her first meeting with Washington (talking in a weepy whisper) is awful, but there is chemistry between the two and they help gloss over the more nonsensical parts of the script (such as a chase through a parking garage--full of cars but no witnesses--and the ridiculous, fatuous way the writers explain Roberts' seemingly unending credit and cash flow--"I have the money my father left me"). The supporting cast is filled with recognizable character actors all playing two-faced sons-of-bitches, with the minor exception of John Lithgow doing a nicely benign turn as the editor at Washington's paper. *** from ****