
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: 6.6
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.
Trailer
Cast

Julia Roberts
Darby Shaw

Denzel Washington
Gray Grantham

Sam Shepard
Thomas Callahan

John Heard
Gavin Vereek

Tony Goldwyn
Fletcher Cole

James B. Sikking
FBI Director 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 / Garcia

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

Ralph Cosham
Justice Jensen

Tom Quinn
Sara Ann Morgan's Father

Michelle O'Neill
Sara Ann Morgan

Edwin Newman
Self

Helen Carey
Federal Clerk

Howard Shalwitz
Washington Herald Journalist

Carol Sutton
New Orleans Policewoman

Magee Hickey
Self

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

Beverly Brigham
Safe Deposit Teller

Doug Coleman
Male Pursuer with Gun

Eliza Coleman
Female Pursuer with Gun

Carrie Boren
Reporter

Amber Nelson
Teen Bicyclist

Kelly Lynn Richards
Protester

Greta Valenti
Kid at Parade

Jerry Van Dyke
Assistant Coach Luther Horatio Van Dam in Coach (archive footage)

Harold Surratt
Parklane Security Officer

Shanna Connell
Tulane Law Student

Michael Port
Tulane Law Student

Gene Babb
Reporter

Kyle Duvall
Reporter

Karl Warren
Reporter

James Earl Reed
Reporter

Kyle Prue
News Desk Reporter

Jurian Hughes
White & Blazevich Receptionist

Peter Carlin
Edward Linney

Terrence Currier
Rosenberg's Nurse

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

Scott M. Jefferson
Lt. Olsen

Danny Kamin
Hooten

Mark McLaughlin
CIA Agent in Hotel Room

Robert Pavlovich
CIA Agent in Hotel Room

Constance Yelverton
Clerk at Sheraton Hotel

Kim Kettle
Gavin Verheek's Wife

Alan Wade
Parklane Administrator

Paul Morella
White & Blazevich Attorney

Ed Johnson
White & Blazevich Security Guard

Dick Stilwell
White & Blazevich Security

Deborah Ben-Eliezer
Marie Halliburton - Protester

Catherine Boyd
Protester

Keith Fluker
Agent

Marianne Hettinger
Eyewitness

Joe James
Runner (voice)

Shane LeCocq
Mardi Gras Party Patron

Kimberley Roper
French Quarter Prostitute

Codie Scott
Man Partying in Quarter

William Shipman
Office Worker

Avo Shirazee
Teen Bicyclist

John A. Taylor
Law School Administrator

Jerry Van Dyke
Assistant Coach Luther Horatio Van Dam (archive footage)