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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. Everybody else wants her dead.

6.6(1,843)19932h 21m13

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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Status
Released
Budget
$45M
Box office
$195.3M
Language
English
  • based on novel or book
  • judge
  • professor
  • mission of murder
  • supreme court
  • legal thriller
  • dramatic
  • suspenseful

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereWestwood, California13 Dec 1993
    • TheatricalPG-1316 Dec 1993
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical1225 Feb 1994
  • AustraliaAU

    • TheatricalM9 Mar 1994
  • CanadaCA

    • Theatrical17 Sept 1993
  • ArgentinaAR

    • Theatrical10 Mar 1994
  • BrazilBR

    • Theatrical16IMDB25 Mar 1994
  • CzechiaCZ

    • Theatrical15+14 Apr 1994
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical154 Apr 1994
  • EstoniaEE

    • Theatrical1 Jul 1994
  • FinlandFI

    • TheatricalK-1225 Mar 1994
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical1216 Mar 1994
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical129 Mar 1994

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The Pelican Brief was released on 17 September 1993.

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    Wuchak

    5/25/2018

    6/10

    Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington team-up in this crime thriller RELEASED IN 1993 and directed by Alan J. Pakula from John Grisham’s novel, "The Pelican Brief” is a political drama/thriller about a law student (Julia Roberts) who researches the murders of two supreme court justices and shares her theory with her college professor (Sam Shepard) who, in turn, gives it to an FBI friend on a lark. The brief hits a n…

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