Embroiled in an affair with Thomas Callahan (Sam Shephard), her alcoholic professor, precocious 24-year-old Tulane University law student Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts) writes up an insightful theory about the recent murder of two Supreme Court justices, one of whom, Abraham Rosenberg (Hume Cronyn), ...more
MPAA Rating: PG13 | Year: 1993 | Running Time: 141 minutes
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For his penultimate film, the late thriller veteran Alan J. Pakula wrote, produced, and directed this overlong but engrossing suspense piece, which could have been 30 minutes shorter and still had time for a love scene between stars Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington. Instead, we get an emotive hug and a chaste kiss, but every other nuance and plot point is obsessed over in detail, leaving us with a cross between a police procedural and a political page-turner, replete with shadowy conspiracies ...more
- Julia Roberts - Darby Shaw
- Denzel Washington - Gray Grantham
- Sam Shepard - Thomas Callahan
- John Heard - Gavin Verheek
- Tony Goldwyn - Fletcher Coal
- Stanley Anderson - Edwin Sneller
- Richard Bauer - Managing Editor
- Joseph Chrest - Song & Dance Man from Bar
- Ralph Cosham - Justice Jensen
- Terrence Currier - Rosenberg's Nurse
- Sonny Jim Gaines - Sarge
- Edwin Newman - Himself
- Tom Quinn - Sara Ann Morgan's Father
- Christopher Murray - Rupert
- Alan J. Pakula - Director
- Alan J. Pakula - Producer
- Pieter Jan Brugge - Producer
- John Grisham - Screenwriter
- Alan J. Pakula - Screenwriter
- John Grisham - Book Author
- Robert Guerra - Art Director
- Alixe Gordin - Casting
- Albert Wolsky - Costume Designer
- John Rusk - First Assistant Director
- Peter Kohn - First Assistant Director
- Tom Rolf - Editor
- Trudy Ship - Editor
- James Horner - Composer (Music Score)











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