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Pelican Brief (The)

Country: USA, Language: English, 141 mins

  • Director: Alan J. Pakula
  • Writer: John Grisham; Alan J. Pakula
  • Producer: Pieter Jan Brugge; Donald Laventhall

CGiii Comment

Gay judges being assassinated.

Julia Roberts plays Miss Marple.

Formulaic and uninspiring - all the usual big production values add nothing.

It's just too far-fetched to have any credibility.

Watch Erin Brockovich instead.


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The(ir) Blurb...

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.

Cast & Characters

Julia Roberts as Darby Shaw;
Denzel Washington as Gray Grantham;
Sam Shepard as Thomas Callahan;
John Heard as Gavin Vereek;
Tony Goldwyn as Fletcher Coal;
James Sikking as FBI Director Denton Voyles;
William Atherton as Bob Gminski;
Robert Culp as President;
Stanley Tucci as Khamel;
Hume Cronyn as Justice Rosenberg;
John Lithgow as Smith Keen;
Anthony Heald as Marty Velmano;
Nicholas Woodeson as Stump;
Stanley Anderson as Edwin Sneller;
John Finn as Matthew Barr