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You decided that if authors such as John Grisham, author of The Pelican Brief and A Time To Kill, and Agatha Christie, author of Miss Marple mysteries and Murder On The Orient Express can do it, why can't you.

The successes of The Pelican Brief, which hit number one on the New York Times bestseller list, and The Client, which debuted at number one, confirmed Grisham's reputation as the master of the legal thriller.

Six of his novels have been turned into films (The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, A Time to Kill, The Rainmaker, and The Chamber), as was an original screenplay, The Gingerbread Man.

He went on to appear in numerous other films, including «The Pelican Brief» with Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington, «Kiss The Girls,» Oliver Stone's «Nixon,» «The Substance of Fire,» «The Last Samurai» opposite Tom Cruise, and the recent remake of Wes Craven's classic «The Last House on the Left.»

Directed by Alan j. Pakula, weho did Klute, All the President's Men, Sophie's Choice, he Parallax View and, ugh, the Pelican Brief.

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Attractive wife, mother and art restorer Adrienne Saunders (Goldie Hawn) discovers that Jack (John Heard, The Pelican Brief), the man she's happily married to, is not who she thinks he is.

THE BLU - RAY DISCS The Pelican Brief and A Time To Kill trundle onto Blu - ray in skeletal releases from Warner that scrimp on both special features and technical scrubbing.

It's gorgeous, truth be told, with the overbearing DVNR of The Pelican Brief arguably more justifiable in a movie from the director of the film version of The Phantom of the Opera musical, who would expect nothing less than this deeply - affected perfection.

Proof that someone else watching The Pelican Brief decided that its great unplumbed racial subplots would be worth a Grisham picture of their own, enter the patently offensive A Time To Kill, underscoring its liberal screed by opening with caricatures of rednecks at war with caricatures of black people: basketball hoops on the one side, Confederate flags on the other; front - yard barbecues, late - night cross-burnings; marble halls of justice, raucous Baptist churches; Kevin Spacey's DA summation on the one side all superego, Matthew McConaughey's tear - jerking monologue on the other all soul.

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The Pelican Brief, alas, is garbage interested in the wrong piece of a two - piece puzzle.

Washington is now approaching his 60th birthday and he's spent more than a quarter of a century on the big screen, breaking into the big time when he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor on the back of 1989's Glory and became a household name in the 1990s with the likes of Malcolm X, The Pelican Brief, Philadelphia, Crimson Tide and Courage Under Fire.

Director Alan J. Pakula («Sophie's Choice» / «The Pelican Brief») carefully reconstructs the White House link with the Watergate break - in by five burglars to the Democratic headquarters, in June, 1972, and the tie - in to President Nixon's resignation in August 1974.

Washington also reeled in large audiences in action roles, with the top box - office draw of such thrillers as The Pelican Brief (1993), Crimson Tide (1995), and The Siege (1998) attesting to his capabilities.

In the former category, he was cast as Jennifer Beals» French ex-husband in «In the Soup» and Alec Baldwin's best friend in «Prelude to a Kiss» (both 1992) while the latter found him playing Lucky Luciano in Robert Benton's «Billy Bathgate» and a Middle Eastern assassin in «The Pelican Brief» (1993).

Not exact matches

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