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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. Everyone else wants her dead.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ), Warner Home Video (Firm)
Other Authors:	Pakula, Alan J., 1928-1998, Brugge, Pieter Jan, Roberts, Julia, 1967-, Washington, Denzel, 1954-, Shepard, Sam, 1943-2017, Heard, John, 1945-, Goldwyn, Tony, Sikking, James, 1934-, Atherton, William, Culp, Robert, 1930-2010, Tucci, Stanley, Cronyn, Hume, Lithgow, John, 1945-, Horner, James, Grisham, John
Format:	Videos DVD
Language:	English French Spanish
Published:	[Burbank, Calif.] : Warner Home Video, [1997]
Edition:	Widescreen ed.
Subjects:	United States. > Supreme Court > Drama. Judges > United States > Drama. Assassination > United States > Drama. Women law students > United States > Drama. African American journalists > Drama. Grisham, John > Film and video adaptations. Feature films. Film adaptations. Films for the hearing impaired.
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Summary:	Two Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everyone else wants her dead.
Item Description:	Based on the book by John Grisham. Originally released as motion picture in 1993. Special features : cast profiles; behind-the-scenes notes.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (141 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	DVD, widescreen presentation, region 1; Dolby digital 5.1 surround, Dolby surround stereo.
Audience:	MPAA rating: PG-13 for momentary language and some violence.
Production Credits:	Music, James Horner ; editors, Tom Rolf, Trudy Ship ; production designer, Philip Rosenberg ; director of photography, Stephen Goldblatt.
ISBN:	0790731525 9780790731520
Author Notes:	Sam Shepard was born Samuel Shepard Rogers III on an army base in Illinois on November 5, 1943. He briefly studied agriculture at Mount San Antonio College, but dropped out to move to New York in 1962. He wrote more than 55 plays during his lifetime. His first play was produced off-off-Broadway when he was 19 years old and he won the first of his 8 Obie Awards when he was 23 years old. His plays included Chicago, The Tooth of Crime, True West, Fool for Love, A Lie of the Mind, The Late Henry Moss, Heartless, and A Particle of Dread. He received the Pulitzer Prize for drama for Buried Child in 1978. He was an actor for both film and television. His films included Days of Heaven, The Right Stuff, and Baby Boom. He also appeared in the Netflix series Bloodline. He wrote or co-wrote several screenplays including Far North and Renaldo and Clara with Bob Dylan. He also wrote songs with John Cale and Bob Dylan including Brownsville Girl. He wrote several books including Cruising Paradise and Motel Chronicles. He died from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis on July 27, 2017 at the age of 73. (Bowker Author Biography)