The Pelican Brief dvd movie.|
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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $5.49 You Save: $9.49 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 17 December, 1993 DVD Release : 25 June, 1997 |
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The Pelican Brief description Another John Grisham legal thriller comes to the screen, pairing Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts in a film directed by Alan J. Pakula, who is known for dark-hued suspense pictures such as Klute, The Parallax View,All the President's Men, and Presumed Innocent. The Pelican Brief isn't up to the level of those films ... review details |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Awful waste of time. Worse soundtrack than "The Firm". I am not kidding. |
| Implausible story line: Supreme court judges are gunned down because some rich guy wants a right-of-way through government land and these justices might rule against him (because they were in favor of the environment, imagine that!). Rich guy figures the sitting prez (his good buddy) will nominate environment hating tools to replace them.
You can see how this storyline was ripped from today's headlines. Hardly a day goes by that we don't hear of somebody trying to kill a supreme court justice. Enter Julia Roberts. A couple years back she watched a news program about a lawyer who supposedly committed suicide (the lawyer's parents didn't think he did, because he'd been taking medication for black depression for awhile now). This leads her to suspect someone close to the president killed the justices. Why, it's so obvious, the connections should have been obvious to anybody, except the CIA, FBI, local police, and newsmedia heroes (like intrepid Denzel) didn't watch that particular show, so out of millions of lawyers, it took a law student to figure it out. (Reality, which struggled vainly to have some control over what happens in this movie, at this point in the story shrugged its shoulders and potted off to read a Nelson DeMille novel.) Anyway, the usual hijinks ensue: exploding cars, parking lot chases, people dying everywhere. As a bonus, add a horrible soundtrack that uses pounding pianos to keep you awake and you've got a guaranteed time waster on your hands. Aren't there some windows that need washing in your house or a good book you could read instead of frittering away 140 minutes you'll never get back? |
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