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Director:
Writers (WGA):
John Grisham (novel)
Brian Koppelman (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
17 October 2003 (USA) more
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Tagline:
Trials are too important to be decided by juries.
Plot:
A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
3 nominations more
User Comments:
Flimsy yet well acted. more (339 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

John Cusack ... Nicholas Easter

Gene Hackman ... Rankin Fitch

Dustin Hoffman ... Wendell Rohr

Rachel Weisz ... Marlee

Bruce Davison ... Durwood Cable

Bruce McGill ... Judge Harkin

Jeremy Piven ... Lawrence Green

Nick Searcy ... Doyle

Stanley Anderson ... Henry Jankle

Cliff Curtis ... Frank Herrera

Nestor Serrano ... Janovich

Leland Orser ... Lamb

Jennifer Beals ... Vanessa Lembeck
Gerry Bamman ... Herman Grimes

Joanna Going ... Celeste Wood
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Le maître du jeu (Canada: French title) (France) [fr]
Das Urteil (Germany) [de]
Das Urteil - Jeder ist käuflich (Germany) [de]
De utvalda (Sweden) [sv]
El jurado (Spain) [es]
Isepäine vandekogu (Estonia) [et]
Jüri (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Juryen (Denmark) [da]
La giuria (Italy) [it]
New Orleans Trial (Japan: English title) [en]
O Júri (Brazil) [pt]
Tribunal en fuga (Argentina) [es]
Valamiehet (Finland) [fi]
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for violence, language and thematic elements.
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127 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Nick and Marlee meet in a voodoo shop where the Creole shopkeeper only speaks French. The movie conveys the image of the City still being mostly French speaking, but the French-only speaking Creole population in New Orleans is practically extinct. more
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Continuity: When Fitch meets the gun company men, a chessboard is shown. The game is already started (the white Queen and the white King are in wrong start position). In the next shots, after some seconds, the chessboard shows the chess pieces in the start position (and the white Queen is finally in the correct square). more
Quotes:
Judge Harkin: I'm not sure, but I believe I'm buying lunch. more
Movie Connections:
References Beetle Juice (1988) more
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When the Saints Go Marching in more

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52 out of 67 people found the following comment useful.
Flimsy yet well acted., 10 October 2004
Author: bluewavetraveler from Boone IA

Well acted yet flimsy adaptation of the John Grisham novel lacks a well rounded script to carry itself but has an amazing cast that lifts this mediocre film past its problems and into respectability. The script has way too many loop holes in logic to even take what you are seeing seriously and the directing lacks a sharp narrative to get across what it's trying to say. The acting is the only major thing that this film excels on and with out it, this would have been a cable movie of the week at best. Gene Hackman is great as a jury consultant who would stop at nothing to win a case and Rachel Weisz is amazing as his adversary in and out of the courtroom. Dustin Hoffman is great as well but he is not in the movie as much as advertise and John Cusack is decent for the role he has. The biggest fault the movie does have is the fact that certain plot points disappear during the course of the film as well as characters. It's a great way to spend two hours of your time, especially with the great performances of Gene Hackman and Rachel Weisz to keep you glued to what is happening but the movie has a lot of glaring problems that makes it hard to sit though in certain parts.

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