TY - ADVS AU - Pakula,Alan J. AU - Brugge,Pieter Jan AU - Roberts,Julia AU - Washington,Denzel AU - Shepard,Sam AU - Heard,John AU - Goldwyn,Tony AU - Sikking,James AU - Atherton,William AU - Culp,Robert AU - Tucci,Stanley AU - Cronyn,Hume AU - Lithgow,John AU - Horner,James AU - Grisham,John ED - Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ) ED - Warner Bros. Entertainment. ED - Warner Home Video (Firm) TI - The pelican brief SN - 1419887467 PY - 2009///] CY - Burbank, CA PB - Warner Bros. Entertainment, Distributed by Warner Home Video KW - Women law students KW - United States KW - Drama KW - Investigative reporting KW - Legal briefs KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Trials (Offenses against the environment) KW - Legal films KW - lcgft KW - Thrillers (Motion pictures) KW - Action and adventure films KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired KW - Feature films N1 - Based on the book by John Grisham; Originally released as a motion picture in 1993; Director of photography, Stephen Goldblatt ; editors, Tom Rolf, Trudy Ship ; music composer, James Horner; Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard, John Heard, Tony Goldwyn, James B. Sikking, William Atherton, Robert Culp, Stanley Tucci, Hume Cronyn, John Lithgow; MPAA rating: PG-13; for momentary language, and some violence N2 - Two Supreme Court Justices have been murdered. A lone law student turns her suspicions about the deaths into a speculative brief that sends shock waves into the highest levels of government. She finds herself embroiled in a terrifying web of intrigue extending to the highest levels of government. She writes a speculative legal brief exposing the activities of a powerful oil magnate. With the help of Gray Grantham, an investigative reporter, they suspect a good friend of the president is trying to manipulate the outcome of a trial that is now before the Supreme Court ER -