The Pelican Brief (film)
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| The Pelican Brief | |
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 The movie poster for The Pelican Brief. |
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| Directed by | Alan J. Pakula |
| Produced by | Alan J. Pakula Pieter Jan Brugge |
| Written by | John Grisham Alan J. Pakula |
| Starring | Denzel Washington Julia Roberts |
| Music by | James Horner |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date(s) | December 17, 1993 |
| Running time | 141 min. |
| Language | English |
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The Pelican Brief is a legal crime thriller based on the novel by the same name written by John Grisham and was adapted into a feature film in 1993, directed by Alan J. Pakula and starring Julia Roberts in the role of young law student Darby Shaw and Denzel Washington as Washington Herald reporter Gray Grantham.
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- Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts) - second year Tulane University law student; author of the brief
- Gray Grantham (Denzel Washington) - reporter for the fictional Washington Herald
- Fletcher Coal (Tony Goldwyn) - White House Chief of Staff; unofficial head of power
- Khamel "Sam" (Stanley Tucci) - international assassin
- Thomas Callahan (Sam Shepard) - Tulane law school professor; romantically involved with Darby Shaw
- Gavin Verheek (John Heard) - FBI lawyer; friend to Thomas Callahan
- F. Denton Voyles (James Sikking) - Director of the FBI
- Bob Gminski (William Atherton) - CIA Chief
- The President (Robert Culp) - elected U.S. President; delegates many administrative duties to Fletcher Coal
- Smith Keene (John Lithgow) - Gray Grantham's boss and Editor of the fictional Washington Herald
- Justice Rosenberg (Hume Cronyn) - eldest, most controversial Supreme Court Justice
- Justice Jensen (Ralph Cosham) - youngest Supreme Court Justice
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Films directed by Alan J. Pakula
The Devil's Own • The Pelican Brief • Consenting Adults • Presumed Innocent • See You in the Morning • Orphans • Dream Lover • Sophie's Choice • Rollover • Starting Over • Comes a Horseman • All the President's Men • The Parallax View • Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing • Klute • The Sterile Cuckoo
