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Paranoid View of Politics
The film shows signs carried by people demonstrating against a Supreme Court judge. Later an assassin kills this judge. Another judge is strangled while watching an "art film". [What, not Executive Protection?] The effect will allow the President to change the Court. A law student begins to investigate the motive by looking at past decisions, which always have some economic effect. This is brought to the notice of the authorities by a law professor. Afterwards, the car with the professor explodes, killing him; the law student escapes by luck. But now "they" are going after her! <
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>The crowd scenes recall other suspense thrillers. Their point is that you can't be safe even on a crowded street. The law student calls a government official; he is the next victim of the assassin. The assassin stalks the law student, but somebody shoots him! We learn there is a court case designed to protect pelicans against oil drilling in a marsh. The justices killed would have ruled against the oil company (or maybe not?). The law student and the reporter continue to follow the trail, and avoid sinister people. The conspirators follow this pair to a safe-deposit box. Their car is rigged with a bomb while they're in the bank! Then a gunman shoots at them when they flee! [This action should wake up anyone snoozing.] But the hero and heroine escape with the videotape and documents to expose the murders and the cover-up. The heroine's reward? To flee the country! What a sad ending to her career. But its better than having her killed at the end for sympathy. <
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>You can see echoes of earlier films, like from Hitchcock, or "Blow Out". Stories that recall Watergate or Reagan's secret funding of South American rebels. I didn't read the original novel, so I can't comment as to its faithfulness to the original novel. There is an anti-democratic message in the film that mocks people who legally demonstrate in the street. <
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Sorry for the huge and famous cast
This movie comes from John Grisham's novel of the same title. Most of the actions taking place in the novel were also presented in this movie. The spotlight reviews goodly summarize the movie, even when I don't agree with their rankings. <
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>The first movie's problem is the character's personalities, less credible many times. One reviewer well said the FBI's personnel looks rather wimpy. The merciless Coal Fletcher looks like a simple clerk while he is the real president in the novel. On the other hand, the novel's heroine (Darby Shaw) losses her strong personality but at the same time behaves in obnoxious ways. For example, in one scene, she asks her best female friend to spread a gossip in college but Darby does not care whatsoever for her friend's safety as in the novel; Darby even tells her that "it's not good for her (Darby) to stay there". Darby does all the opposite in the novel. Next, her friend does all what she says, this not credible. <
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>The second movie's error is the way the show the events. For example, as I said Fletcher is not portrayed as a tough way, there's even an scene where we see his seeing his family's picture at his desk, really charming; however he is still punished in the movie. Any honest person who does not let to be impressed by the reputations of the actors and director should admit that the movie is not always understandable. I watched this movie right when released in 1992 and I didn't understand it but the huge Julia Roberts' success was on its highest so I didn't think much, just considered it was sort of boring. Now, I read the novel, watched the movie again and understood the movie was flawed. In fact, all bad guys in the movie were only small fishes who chased Darby. <
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>I also complain that the movie shows some misbehaviour as good ones. For example, in one scene the president asks the FBI chief (Voyles) to stop a crime investigation. Voyles offers to do it in exchange of favours. This is plain corruption yet the movie made it look like a cocktail party! In another scene one character (Callahan) is about to start driving while drunk and Darby only plays a little bit to stop him just to finally let him get on his car. <
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>The movie added a few action scenes the novel doesn't have, yet it is quite boring. The novel has less action, yet it is more exciting.

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Drama, and Action
the Pelican Brief is a great story filled with Drama and action. <
>when something bad happens or someone gets killed, you can see the sadness on the face of Julia Roberts, she is a great actor, she acts her part in a very very amazing way! <
>she can continue on being sad, and serious at the same time! <
>you got to watch this movie!! <
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