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The Firm *** (1993, Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Hal Holbrook) – Classic Movie Review 1,536
Sydney Pollack’s simmering 1993 legal thriller film The Firm stars Tom Cruise as a promising young attorney seduced into joining a sinister Memphis family lawyer firm and Gene Hackman as his world-weary mentor. Director Sydney […]
A Time to Kill *** (1996, Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L Jackson, Donald Sutherland, Kevin Spacey) – Classic Film Review 1015
Based on the John Grisham bestselling legal thriller novel, director Joel Schumacher’s 1996 movie is an acceptable, quite enjoyable but rather tepid and vaguely botched racially-aware legal thriller. In Mississippi, an African American father Carl Lee […]
The Chamber ** (1996, Gene Hackman, Chris O’Donnell, Faye Dunaway, Robert Prosky, Harve Presnell) – Classic Movie Review 1006
Director James Foley’s 1996 legal thriller is another lacklustre adaptation from a John Grisham novel, saved by Gene Hackman’s impeccable performance as a racist bigoted bomber, Sam Cayhall, whose rookie lawyer grandson Adam Hall (Chris […]
Runaway Jury **** (2003, John Cusack, Rachel Weisz, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman) – Classic Movie Review 902
The 2003 American legal thriller film Runaway Jury stars Gene Hackman as the splendidly slimy jury fixer Rankin Fitch, whose motto is ‘Trials are too important to be left up to juries’. Director Gary Fleder’s […]
The Client **** (1994, Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Renfro, J T Walsh, Will Patton, William H Macy) – Classic Movie Review 653
Director Joel Schumacher’s tense and exciting 1994 thriller is still the best of the film adaptations of John Grisham’s legal mystery novels so far. Susan Sarandon was Oscar nominated and won the BAFTA Film Award for […]
The Gingerbread Man *** (1998, Kenneth Branagh, Embeth Davidtz, Robert Downey Jr, Robert Duvall) – Classic Movie Review 422
Robert Altman’s neglected 1998 movie is an awkward but by no means negligible noirish thriller, based on a John Grisham original screen story. Kenneth Branagh gives an exceptional performance as a very flawed, unsympathetic hero, […]
The Rainmaker **** (1997, Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Claire Danes, Jon Voight, Mary Kay Place, Danny Glover) – Classic Movie Review 382
Francis Ford Coppola’s magnetic 1997 thriller film The Rainmaker makes its case to win the award for the best film adaptation of a John Grisham legal mystery novel. Francis Ford Coppola’s magnetic 1997 thriller film […]
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