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