

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.
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
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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