
The Pelican Brief
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.
1993 en 141 minutes
Rating: 6.588
Plot
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.
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Cast

Julia Roberts
Darby Shaw

Denzel Washington
Gray Grantham

Sam Shepard
Thomas Callahan

John Heard
Gavin Vereek

Tony Goldwyn
Fletcher Coal

James B. Sikking
Denton Voyles

William Atherton
Bob Gminski

Robert Culp
The President

Stanley Tucci
Khamel

Hume Cronyn
Justice Rosenberg

John Lithgow
Smith Keen

Anthony Heald
Marty Velmano

Nicholas Woodeson
Stump

Stanley Anderson
Edwin Sneller

John Finn
Matthew Barr

Cynthia Nixon
Alice Stark

Jake Weber
Curtis Morgan

Casey Biggs
Eric East

Christopher Murray
Rupert

Sonny Jim Gaines
Sarge

Kevin Geer
K.O. Lewis

Joe Chrest
Song and Dance Man from Bar

Richard Bauer
Managing Editor

Michelle O'Neill
Sara Ann Morgan

Peter Carlin
Edward Linney

Ralph Cosham
Justice Jensen

Terrence Currier
Rosenberg's Nurse

Edwin Newman
Edwin Newman

Helen Carey
Federal Clerk

Howard Shalwitz
Washington Herald Journalist

Kyle Prue
News Desk Reporter

Jewell Robinson
Senior Washington Herald Editor

Kim Peter Kovac
Senior Washington Herald Editor

Norman Aronovic
Senior Washington Herald Editor

Carl Palmer
Cop in Cowboy Boots

Carol Sutton
New Orleans Policewoman

Scott M. Jefferson
Lieutenant Olsen

Danny Kamin
Hooten

Mark McLaughlin
CIA Agent in Hotel Room

Robert Pavlovich
CIA Agent in Hotel Room

Magee Hickey
Magee Hickey

Constance Yelverton
Clerk at Sheraton Hotel

Kim Kettle
Gavin Verheek's Wife

Ellie K. Wang
Reporter at National Cathedral

Franchelle Stewart Dorn
University Registrar

Karen Bralove
University Placement Clerk

Teagle F. Bougere
Male University Student

Carey Varner
Female University Student

Sandra Quarterman
Laura Kass

Cynthia Hood
Parklane Receptionist

Alan Wade
Parklane Administrator

Harold Surratt
Parklane Security Officer

Paul Morella
White & Blazevich Attorney

Ed Johnson
White & Blazevich Security Guard

Jurian Hughes
White & Blazevich Receptionist

Dick Stilwell
White & Blazevich Security

Tom Quinn
Sara Ann Morgan's Father

Beverly Brigham
Safe Deposit Teller

Eliza Coleman
Female Pursuer with Gun

Doug Coleman
Male Pursuer with Gun

Michael Port
Tulane Law Student

Shanna Connell
Tulane Law Student

Gene Babb
Reporter

Kyle Duvall
Reporter

Karl Warren
Reporter

Carrie Boren
Reporter

James Earl Reed
Reporter

Marianne Hettinger
Eyewitness (uncredited)

Shane LeCocq
Mardi Gras Party Patron (uncredited)

Kimberley Roper
French Quarter Prostitute (uncredited)

Codie Scott
Man Partying in Quarter (uncredited)

William Shipman
Office Worker (uncredited)