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Runaway Jury is a 2003 American legal thriller film directed by Gary Fleder and starring John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz.An adaptation of John Grisham's 1996 novel The Runaway Jury, [2] the film pits lawyer Wendell Rohr (Hoffman) against shady jury consultant Rankin Fitch (Hackman), who uses unlawful means to stack the jury with people sympathetic to the defense.
The Runaway Jury is a legal thriller novel written by American author John Grisham. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was Grisham's seventh novel. The hardcover first edition was published by Doubleday Books in 1996 ( ISBN 0-385-47294-3 ).
Wendell Gauthier is portrayed as Wendell Rohr in John Grisham's bestselling 1996 novel Runaway Jury as well as the movie adaptation. The novel uses the Castano v. The novel uses the Castano v. American Tobacco Company case as its setting while the movie, released in 2003 substitutes gun control as the issue being litigated.
Cusack was born in Evanston, Illinois into an Irish Catholic family. His parents are writer-actor-producer and documentary filmmaker Richard J. "Dick" Cusack (1925–2003), originally from New York City, [2] [3] [4] and Ann Paula "Nancy" Cusack (née Carolan; 1929–2022), [5] originally from Massachusetts, a former mathematics teacher and political activist.
Calia "Miss Callie" Harris Ruffin - a black woman with eight children, seven of whom have Ph.Ds. She is selected for jury duty at the Padgitt trial. She and Traynor share an unlikely friendship. Baggy Suggs - an alcoholic reporter for The Times. Wiley Meek - photographer for The Times. Danny Padgitt - a member of the notorious Padgitt family.
She went on to appear as Mrs. Thornton (Jo Harding's mother) in Twister (1996), Mrs Pendleton in Amistad (1997), Gridlock'd (1997), Alice in EDtv (1999), Irene "Big Red" Johnson in The Perfect Storm (2000), Millie Dupree in Runaway Jury (2003), Big Betty in North Country (2005), and as office worker Peggy Displasia in The Belko Experiment in 2016.
Skipping Christmas is a comedic novel by John Grisham.It was published by Doubleday on November 6, 2001, and reached #1 on The New York Times Best-Seller List on December 9 that year. [1]
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