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.
Genres
Thriller, Crime, Drama
Studio
Warner Bros. Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Pelican Brief performed
Budget
$45.0M
Worldwide Gross
$195.3M
Gross Profit
$150.3M
Return
4.3× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$31M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~42/58, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (38% of the domestic run, typical for Thriller) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Darby Shaw
Julia Roberts
Darby Shaw
Gray Grantham
Denzel Washington
Gray Grantham
Thomas Callahan
Sam Shepard
Thomas Callahan
Gavin Vereek
John Heard
Gavin Vereek
Fletcher Coal
Tony Goldwyn
Fletcher Coal
Denton Voyles
James B. Sikking
Denton Voyles
Bob Gminski
William Atherton
Bob Gminski
The President
Robert Culp
The President
Khamel
Stanley Tucci
Khamel
Justice Rosenberg
Hume Cronyn
Justice Rosenberg
Smith Keen
John Lithgow
Smith Keen
Marty Velmano
Anthony Heald
Marty Velmano
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