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Critic Angie Errigo
rated 6

Like The Firm, this is a starry, big buck exercise in amateur sleuthing, law, corruption, sudden death, spooky surveillance and evasion of capture, very true to the book this time and extremely well cast...

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Cast & Crew

Alan J. Pakula
Director
Kimberley Roper
As French Quarter Prostitute
Kimberley Roper
Director
Stanley Tucci
As Khamel
John Heard
As Gavin Vereek
Doug Coleman
As Male Pursuer with Gun

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The Pelican Brief is a thriller movie that follows the story of Darby Shaw, a young law student who writes a legal brief that outlines her theory on the murder of two Supreme Court justices. Her brief suggests that the killings were orchestrated by an oil tycoon who wants to drill for oil in a Louisiana marshland, and that the murders were intended to influence the appointment of new justices who would favor oil and gas exploitation over environmental issues. When her brief gains attention, Darby becomes the target of assassins and must go into hiding. She teams up with Washington Herald reporter Gray Grantham to uncover the truth behind the murders and expose the conspiracy. The movie stars Julia Roberts as Darby Shaw and Denzel Washington as Gray Grantham, and was released in 1993.

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