The Pelican Brief

  • Thriller
9/17/1993
141
PG-13

Two Supreme Court Justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everybody else wants her dead.

A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.

Revenue:
$195,268,056
Budget:
$45,000,000

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  • Wuchak

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

    RELEASED IN 1993 and directed by Alan J. Pakula from John Grishams 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.

    While I prefer The Firm (1993), which was also written by Grisham, this one is along the same lines, albeit with a totally different story (naturally). Pelican has more act...

    May 25, 2018

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