Top billed cast

1. 

   Julia Roberts

   Darby Shaw

2. 

   Denzel Washington

   Gray Grantham

3. 

   Sam Shepard

   Thomas Callahan

4. 

   John Heard

   Gavin Vereek

5. 

   Tony Goldwyn

   Fletcher Coal

6. 

   James B. Sikking

   Denton Voyles

7. 

   William Atherton

   Bob Gminski

8. 

   Robert Culp

   The President

9. 

   Stanley Tucci

   Khamel

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak

Written by Wuchak on 2018-05-25

Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington team-up in this crime thriller

RELEASED IN 1993 and directed by Alan J. Pakula from John Grisham’s novel, "The Pelican Brief” is a political drama/thriller about a law student (Julia Roberts) who researches the murders of two supreme court justices and shares her theory with her college professor (Sam Shepard) who, in turn, gives it to an FBI friend on a lark. The brief hits a nerve because people start dying one-by-one. Denzel Washington plays a DC reporter who teams-up with the student while Robert Culp appears as the president.

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$45,000,000.00

Revenue
$195,268,056.00

Keywords

• based on novel or book
• judge
• professor
• mission of murder
• supreme court
• legal thriller
• dramatic
• suspenseful