The Pelican Brief (film)

The Pelican Brief
The movie poster for The Pelican Brief.
Directed by	Alan J. Pakula
Produced by	Alan J. Pakula Pieter Jan Brugge
Written by	John Grisham Alan J. Pakula
Starring	Denzel Washington Julia Roberts
Music by	James Horner
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)	December 17, 1993
Running time	141 min.
Language	English
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The Pelican Brief is a legal crime thriller based on the novel by the same name written by John Grisham and was adapted into a feature film in 1993, directed by Alan J. Pakula and starring Julia Roberts in the role of young law student Darby Shaw and Denzel Washington as Washington Herald reporter Gray Grantham.

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Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts) - second year Tulane University law student; author of the brief
Gray Grantham (Denzel Washington) - reporter for the fictional Washington Herald
Fletcher Coal (Tony Goldwyn) - White House Chief of Staff; unofficial head of power
Khamel "Sam" (Stanley Tucci) - international assassin
Thomas Callahan (Sam Shepard) - Tulane law school professor; romantically involved with Darby Shaw
Gavin Verheek (John Heard) - FBI lawyer; friend to Thomas Callahan
F. Denton Voyles (James Sikking) - Director of the FBI
Bob Gminski (William Atherton) - CIA Chief
The President (Robert Culp) - elected U.S. President; delegates many administrative duties to Fletcher Coal
Smith Keene (John Lithgow) - Gray Grantham's boss and Editor of the fictional Washington Herald
Justice Rosenberg (Hume Cronyn) - eldest, most controversial Supreme Court Justice
Justice Jensen (Ralph Cosham) - youngest Supreme Court Justice