Film Review №3 : The Pelican Brief .

The Pelican Brief

Directed by: Alan J. Pakula

Movie Type: legal crime thriller

Starring: Julia Roberts Denzel Washington Sam Shepard Hume Cronyn, Stanley Tucci, John Heard, John Lithgow, Tony Goldwyn, James Sikking, William Atherton ,Robert Culp

Music by: James Horner

Release date(s): December 17, 1993

Running time: 141 minutes

Budget: $45 million

Country: United States

Language: English

MPAA Rating: PG 13

Summary and Thoughts : 

The plot is set in motion by the assassination of two Supreme Court justices, a curmudgeonly liberal (Hume Cronyn) and a closeted Republican homosexual (Ralph Cosham); all they have in common is a pro-environment inclination. Spirited and beautiful law student Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts) puts together a brief theorizing that the culprit could be a shadowy oil millionaire determined to tap a billion-dollar oil reserve in the fragile Louisiana bayou habitat of the endangered brown pelican. Her lover (Sam Shepard) shows the brief to a friend in the FBI, Verheek (John Heard), and suddenly Darby is the most hunted woman in America. Washington Herald reporter Gray Grantham (Denzel Washington) becomes her ally as she seeks to evade her shadowy pursuers and find out the truth behind a scandal that reaches to the highest levels of government. I like this film, and I should say, that it's my first "legal crime thrillel", so the theme of this story and its setting looks smart enough.  A craving  wish of a young specialist to achieve justice, to get into the game  of "the highest of our world", to sacrifice everything valuable in order of main purpose -  to separate the world of unfair.  All this sets and features are dedicated to our   main character of the story and to a new friend, who was embroiled into the lake  of wicked businessmen game An accurate,action film adaptation of the best-selling novel follows closely the canons of a true detective-story. We are forced to strain our gyruses, to try to find out the truth before the characters did. So, I can say, that this film is very strong image of "a good detective-thriller" with good casting, brilliant plot, based on  "The Pelican Brief" story by
 John Grisham and nice directing work.