Movie
1993
The Pelican Brief is a 1993 American legal thriller film based on John Grisham's 1992 novel. Written and directed by Alan J. Pakula, the film stars Julia Roberts in the role of young law student Darby Shaw and Denzel Washington as Washington Herald reporter Gray Grantham. The film, which features music composed by James Horner, was the last film that featured Pakula as both writer and director before his death in…
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Some of the best films in the career of American director Alan J. Pakula were political conspiracy thrillers made in 1970s, decade marked by American’s deep disappointment with government following assassinations, Vietnam fiasco and Watergate scandals. Pakula dealt with the same genre roughly two decades later with *The Pelican Brief*, adaptation of best-selling novel by John Grisham, which would become his penultim…More
