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The Pelican Brief (1993) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 3, 1997
MPAA Rating
PG13
Running Time
2 hours, 21 minutes
Country USA
Studio Warner Brothers
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• The Pelican Brief
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Drama, Political, Law, Deception, Suspense, Spy, Courtroom, Murder, Gay/Lesbian, School / Campus
Tagline: 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.
Plot: In Alan J. Pakula's (KLUTE) thriller THE PELICAN BRIEF Julia Roberts plays Tulane University law student Darby Shaw. After the consecutive murders of two Supreme Court Justices, she becomes intrigued with the case and assembles a brief on her theory of who committed the murders. However, things start to get tricky when those who’ve read her brief turn up as corpses, which prompts her to enlist help from Washington Herald reporter Gray Grantham (Denzel Washington). Their further gathering of evidence to prove her hypothesis only results in moving their names up on the hit-list. Replete with cameo roles by high-profile actors such as playwright Sam Shepard (TRUE WEST) as the law professor with whom Shaw has an affair, this box office hit closely follows popular novelist John Grisham’s (THE FIRM) best-selling book. The film's themes are in line with late director Pakula's abiding interest in conspiracy drama, a topic explored in many of his best films such as ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN and THE PARALLAX VIEW.
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Alan J. Pakula
All the President's Men, The Devil's Own, Presumed Innocent |
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To Kill a Mockingbird, All the President's Men, The Devil's Own |
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