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.
Trailer
Cast
John Lithgow
Smith Keen
Joe Chrest
Song and Dance Man from Bar
Tony Goldwyn
Fletcher Coal
Stanley Tucci
Khamel
Christopher Murray
Rupert
Teagle F. Bougere
Male University Student
William Atherton
Bob Gminski
John Finn
Matthew Barr
Sam Shepard
Thomas Callahan
Helen Carey
Federal Clerk
Carl Palmer
Cop in Cowboy Boots
Julia Roberts
Darby Shaw
Stanley Anderson
Edwin Sneller
Cynthia Nixon
Alice Stark
Jake Weber
Curtis Morgan
James B. Sikking
Denton Voyles
Robert Pavlovich
CIA Agent in Hotel Room
Eliza Coleman
Female Pursuer with Gun
Denzel Washington
Gray Grantham
Hume Cronyn
Justice Rosenberg
Nicholas Woodeson
Stump
Edwin Newman
Edwin Newman
Casey Biggs
Eric East
Carol Sutton
New Orleans Policewoman
Scott M. Jefferson
Lieutenant Olsen
Doug Coleman
Male Pursuer with Gun
Codie Scott
Man Partying in Quarter (uncredited)
Robert Culp
The President
Marianne Hettinger
Eyewitness (uncredited)
Anthony Heald
Marty Velmano
Harold Surratt
Parklane Security Officer
John Heard
Gavin Vereek
Danny Kamin
Hooten
Michael Port
Tulane Law Student