The Pelican Brief
Thriller
Crime
Drama
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.
A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.
1993-09-17
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Cast
Director
Alan J. Pakula
Julia Roberts as Darby Shaw
Denzel Washington as Gray Grantham
Sam Shepard as Thomas Callahan
John Heard as Gavin Vereek
Tony Goldwyn as Fletcher Coal
James B. Sikking as Denton Voyles
William Atherton as Bob Gminski
Robert Culp as The President
Stanley Tucci as Khamel
Hume Cronyn as Justice Rosenberg
John Lithgow as Smith Keen
Anthony Heald as Marty Velmano
Nicholas Woodeson as Stump
Stanley Anderson as Edwin Sneller
John Finn as Matthew Barr
Cynthia Nixon as Alice Stark
Jake Weber as Curtis Morgan
Casey Biggs as Eric East
Christopher Murray as Rupert
Joe Chrest as Song and Dance Man from Bar
Helen Carey as Federal Clerk
Carl Palmer as Cop in Cowboy Boots
Carol Sutton as New Orleans Policewoman
Scott M. Jefferson as Lieutenant Olsen
Danny Kamin as Hooten
Teagle F. Bougere as Male University Student
Harold Surratt as Parklane Security Officer
Eliza Coleman as Female Pursuer with Gun
Doug Coleman as Male Pursuer with Gun
Michael Port as Tulane Law Student
Marianne Hettinger as Eyewitness (uncredited)