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Pelican Brief (1993)  link to Pelican Brief on IMDb  

Number: 221

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IMDb Rating:
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6.6/10 (64.3K votes)

Also known as: The Pelican Brief

Country: United States, 141 minutes

Spoken languages: English, Spanish

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Director(s): Alan J. Pakula

Storyline:
Two Supreme Court Justices have been killed. Now a college professor, who clerked for one of the two men, who's also having an affair with one of his students, is given a brief by her, that states who probably, wanted to see these two men dead. He then gives it to one of his friends, who works for the FBI. When the FBI director reads it, he is fascinated by it. One of the president's men who read it, is afraid that if it ever got out, the president could be smeared. So, he advises the president to tell the director to drop it, which he does. But later the professor and the girl were out and he was drunk and when he refused to give her the keys she stepped out of the car. When he started it, it blew up. She then discovers that her place has been burglarized and what was taken were her computer and her disks. Obviously, her brief has someone agitated. She then turns to her boyfriend's friend at the FBI, he agrees to come meet her but before he does someone shoots him and takes his place...

Cast:

Julia Roberts Darby Shaw
Denzel Washington Gray Grantham
Sam Shepard Thomas Callahan
John Heard Gavin Vereek
Tony Goldwyn Fletcher Coal

Medium: DVD R/RW, Dolby Digital 5.1 - English

Location: Book 5 Page 9

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 2.35:1