The Pelican Brief (Blu-ray) PG-13
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.
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 21 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 10, 2009
- Originally Released: 1993
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Julia Roberts | |
Performer: | Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard, John Heard, Tony Goldwyn, James B. Sikking, Robert Culp, Hume Cronyn, John Lithgow, William Atherton & Stanley Tucci | |
Directed by | Alan J. Pakula | |
Composition by | James Horner | |
Story by | John Grisham |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Talky political thriller won't engage kids.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: 3/4 --
Not on par with Alan J. Pakula's preeminent paranoid cinema. But depicting a POTUS at odds with his FBI director and creating obstruction of justice concerns aligns it with Pakula's other preternaturally predictive potboilers.
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Midwest Film Journal
Pakula's always had a cool style, tending toward solemnity, but let's face it, All the President's Men this movie is not. You wish he'd have a little more fun with the pulpy material.
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Newsweek
...A celebration of liquid brown eyes and serious star quality....[Roberts and Washington] make the movie shine...
New York Times
An old hand at this sort of thing, Pakula goes through the motions, but not much more.
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Time Out
Pakula has improved on Grisham's book by excising much of the detritus, crafting a taut, intelligent thriller that succeeds on almost every level.
Variety
Both Roberts, with her intense fragility, and Washington, with his thoughtful heroism, prove invaluable in pulling us into the heart of the film.
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Hartford Courant
Product Description:
Julia Roberts (ERIN BROCKOVICH) stars in THE PELICAN BRIEF as sharp law student Darby Shaw whose querying mind gets her into trouble. A faithful adaptation of John Grisham's (THE FIRM) best-selling novel, this taut thriller follows the travails that beset Shaw when her theory on the cause of the deaths of two Supreme Court Justices lands her name on the conspirators' hit list. When Shaw teams up with reporter Gray Grantham (Denzel Washington--THE HURRICANE) they find themselves dodging deadly assassins in a suspenseful story that weaves complex narrative strands. The well-cast film also features a cameo by playwright-actor Sam Shepard (TRUE WEST).
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- Sales Rank: 42,955
- UPC: 883929039265
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