5.8 Score

1993 • 2h 21min • PG-13 • Thriller, Crime, Drama

The Pelican Brief

"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.

IMDb 6.6

RT 54%

MC 51

Director

Alan J. Pakula

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Alan J. Pakula

John Grisham

Composer

James Horner

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Julia Roberts

Darby Shaw

Denzel Washington

Gray Grantham

Sam Shepard

Thomas Callahan

John Heard

Gavin Vereek

Tony Goldwyn

Fletcher Coal

James B. Sikking

Denton Voyles

William Atherton

Bob Gminski

Robert Culp

The President

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Julia Roberts Darby Shaw

Denzel Washington Gray Grantham

Sam Shepard Thomas Callahan

John Heard Gavin Vereek

Tony Goldwyn Fletcher Coal

James B. Sikking Denton Voyles

William Atherton Bob Gminski

Robert Culp The 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

Cynthia Nixon Alice Stark

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