The Pelican Brief (1993)
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.
141 min
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.
- Release date
- March 10, 1994
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $45,000,000
- Box office
- $195,268,056
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Cast
- Julia Roberts as Darby Shaw
- Denzel Washington as Gray Grantham
- Sam Shepard as Thomas Callahan
- John Heard as Gavin Verheek
- Tony Goldwyn as Fletcher Coal
- James B. Sikking as FBI Director Denton Voyles
- William Atherton as Bob Gminski
- Robert Culp as President
- Stanley Tucci as Khamel
- Hume Cronyn as Justice Rosenberg
- John Lithgow as Smith Keen
- Anthony Heald as Marty Velmano
- Nicholas Woodeson as Stump
- Stanley Anderson as Edwin Sneller
- John Finn as Matthew Barr
- Cynthia Nixon as Alice Stark
- Jake Weber as Curtis Morgan
- Casey Biggs as Eric East
- Christopher Murray as Rupert
- Sonny Jim Gaines as Sarge
- Kevin Geer as K.O. Lewis
- Joe Chrest as Song and Dance Man from Bar
- Richard Bauer as Managing Editor
- Michelle O'Neill as Sara Ann Morgan
- Ralph Cosham as Justice Jensen
- Terrence Currier as Rosenberg's Nurse
- Helen Carey as Federal Clerk
Crew
- Alan J. Pakula · Director
- John Grisham · Writer
- Alan J. Pakula · Writer
- Pieter Jan Brugge · Producer
- Alan J. Pakula · Producer
- James Horner · Composer
- Stephen Goldblatt · Cinematographer
- Tom Rolf · Editor
- Trudy Ship · Editor
- Alixe Gordin · Casting director
- Philip Rosenberg · Production designer