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