Regie:
Gary FlederCamera:
Robert ElswitMuziek:
Christopher YoungActeurs:
John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Weisz, Bruce Davison, Bruce McGill, Jeremy Piven, Nick Searcy, Stanley Anderson, Cliff Curtis (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
Wendell Rohr is een advocaat die het op wil nemen tegen de wapenindustrie. Rankin Fitch is de consultant voor het uitkiezen van de juryleden. Zij strijden voor de beste jury. Nicholas Easter is een jurylid met een vriendin buiten de jury. Zij hebben een verleden en een geheel eigen agenda. (20th Century Fox)
Recensie (2)
A tame and routine staging of one big trial and the associated string-pulling outside the courtroom. It has a stellar cast featuring Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman, but lacks in emphasis, more sophisticated grip and memorable scenes. Purely average, a nineties movie shot a decade too late.
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Another tale from the pen of John Grisham on the subject of courtroom drama, this time focusing ostentatiously on the jurors and ways of influencing them. It's not quite a typical courtroom drama, as the flip side of the whole case comes to the fore here, and the trial itself is presented only as a formal guarantee of justice for the public and the media. The decision-making and the most important part of the trial here takes place in an ultra-gray zone, which contributes to the much larger impression of a courtroom thriller and at some points even breathtaking action scenes (within the courtroom drama genre definitely). As a whole, Runaway Jury is unfortunately oddly uneven, which prevents me from ranking it among the top films from the courtroom setting. But if you seek out genre films with a similar tone, you should definitely not miss this. Within the genre, it's still strongly above average.
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