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    The Pelican Brief

    The Pelican Brief
    Director: Alan J. Pakula
    Actors: Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard, John Heard, Tony Goldwyn
    Studio: Warner Home Video
    Category: DVD

    List Price: $14.98
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    Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars 71 reviews
    Sales Rank: 1401

    Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Widescreen, Ntsc
    Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
    Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
    Region: 1
    Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
    DVD Layers: 1
    DVD Sides: 2
    Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
    Number Of Discs: 1
    Running Time: 141 Minutes
    Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
    Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.5 x 0.5

    MPN: WARD12989D
    ISBN: 0790731525
    UPC: 085391298922
    EAN: 9780790731520
    ASIN: 0790731525

    Theatrical Release Date: December 17, 1993
    Release Date: June 25, 1997
    Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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    Editorial Reviews:

    Amazon.com
    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, but it is a perfectly entertaining movie about a law student (Roberts) whose life is endangered when she discovers evidence of a conspiracy behind the killings of two Supreme Court justices. She enlists the help of an investigative reporter (Washington) and the two become fugitives. The charisma and chemistry of the leads goes a long way toward compensating for the story's shortcomings, as does a truly impressive supporting cast that includes Sam Shepard, John Heard, James B. Sikking, Tony Goldwyn, Stanley Tucci, Hume Cronyn, John Lithgow, William Atherton, and Robert Culp. --Jim Emerson

    Product Description
    TWO SUPREME COURT JUSTICES HAVE BEEN ASSASSINATED. ONE LONE LAW STUDENT HAS STUMBLED UPON THE TRUTH. AN INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER WANTS HER STORY. EVERYONE ELSE WANTS HER DEAD. SHE CONFIDES IN GRAY GRANTHAM WHAT SHE HAS WRITTEN IN A LEGAL BRIEF ABOUT A COVER-UP THAT EXTENDS TO THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT.


    Customer Reviews:   Read 66 more reviews...

    2 out of 5 stars One Movie, Two Sides   June 18, 2009
    jessjess
    There are some movies I can see needing two discs. The Lord of the Rings for example. Very long movie... two discs. Okay. The Pelican Brief? Really? It's less than 2.5 hours? Can't fit it all on one side of the disc? I know of many a three hour movie that all fit just fine on one disc, one side.
    I like the movie well enough, I guess, but I don't know if it's worth the hassle of flipping the disc over.



    4 out of 5 stars TELL ME I WON'T HAVE TO FLIP THIS OVER TO FINISH   May 23, 2009
    SunnyATL (Atlanta, GA)
    One reason I sold my copy of this movie is the idiocrasy of how I had to get up and flip the disc over to finish the film. Totally messed up the flow. Can someone please tell me if the Blu-ray version has it all on one side, or am I going to have to get up and down to watch it all the way through?


    5 out of 5 stars Pelican Brief   April 7, 2009
    Pass Time Reader
    Great movie and although it is an older one, what a good watch. I did, however, return the first one as it only played for half the movie and Amazon was TERRIFIC with the return. What a great company to deal with when you have defective merchandise! The next one I recieved did the same thing and on a whim, I turned the DVD over and it played to completion. I do not fault Amazon and with the cost being so inexpensive, I chose to keep the DVD.


    4 out of 5 stars The Good & Bad Of The Pelican Brief   April 6, 2009
    Craig Connell (Lockport, NY USA)
    Some of things I really appreciated from this political thriller was (1) no sappy romance taking away from the suspense and story; (2) very little profanity; (3) a number of interesting scenes that kept your attention for the full 141 minutes; (4) solid acting by the two leads, Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts; (5) nice visuals and nice sound.

    What I didn't appreciate was the usual Hollywood amount of Liberal agendas, some subtle, some not so subtle. The message that anyone against saving pelicans is either crooked or a violent thug is preposterous. Early on, we hear a TV broadcaster proclaiming that the killings of two Supreme Court justices might have been by some group that also bombed abortion clinics, ACLU offices, etc. Of course - villainous right wingers hurting good-guy left wingers - what else? Isn't that the way it's always portrayed in the movies?

    Too bad that bias political propaganda is in here because most of this film is just a very good suspense film and well done at that. Washington and Roberts are both fun to watch and they are up against so many suspicious-looking characters that it's a paranoid viewer's delight. They keep you guessing who you can trust and who you can't, which is fun, and helps make the time on this movie fly past.




    5 out of 5 stars Enjoyable Movie   March 19, 2009
    Robert C. Porter
    Pelican Brief was a flick that I thoroughly enjoyed & the dvd itself was in good shape .


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