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
Take any John Grisham novel and have it brought to screen, written and directed by Alan J. Pakula (Sophie's Choice, All the President's Men. To Kill a Mockingbird), and add Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington as the leads, and you have a movie that is worthy of 141 minutes of your life.
I love political films. You know that if you have read my reviews. Political thrillers are especially great. This one is well worth watching for the story, the directing, and, most especially, for the lead actors. I do not think that Washington and Roberts have ever disappointed me - OK, there was that License to Kill in 1984.
I won't synopsize - you can get that anywhere - but, I will say that you will not be disappointed. It's not a popcorn movie, you have to put some effort into watching it, but the rewards are great. And the chemistry between Roberts and Washington is fantastic!