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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.
Jon Gary Grubbs (born November 14, 1949) is an American character actor who has appeared in 178 credited shows and films since the 1970s and is still working steadily. [3] [4] He is best known as Captain Steven Wiecek in For Love and Honor (1983-1984), Harlin in Will & Grace (1998-1999), and Mr. Dummont in Common Law (2012).
2003 Runaway Jury as Lonnie Shaver; 2004 Spider-Man 2 as Joe "Robbie" Robertson; 2006 Out There [12] as Desmond; 2006 Idlewild as G.W. 2007 Firehouse Dog as Joe Musto; 2007 Spider-Man 3 as Joe "Robbie" Robertson; 2007 Randy and the Mob as Wardlowe Gone; 2008 A Raisin in the Sun as "Bobo" 2008 Little Bear and the Master as The Warden; 2009 Fences
Davison had roles in Runaway Jury and Apt Pupil, as well as the X-Men film franchise as Robert Kelly in the first film and a shapeshifting imposter in X2. He was the fanatical Reverend Samuel Parris in Arthur Miller's screen adaptation of his play The Crucible. Davison also portrayed a rich philanthropist in the film Christmas Angel.
On the film, co-star Kiefer Sutherland recalled, "John Cusack was on the film for at least a week. I admired what he was doing and thought he was an actor I wanted to emulate." [18] In 1988, Cusack went on and starred in the Independent film Eight Men Out (1988), about Major League Baseball's Black Sox Scandal during the 1919 World Series. [19]
Rusty Schwimmer is an American character actress and singer. She has appeared in films such as A Little Princess (1995), Twister (1996), The Perfect Storm (2000), Runaway Jury (2003), North Country (2005), The Informant! (2009), and The Sessions (2012).
After getting his acting degree, he was selected to stand-in for Dustin Hoffman on the John Grisham film, Runaway Jury. Hoffman then invited Slaughter to move to Los Angeles, where he would work from 2002-2005 as Hoffman's permanent stand-in. [ 3 ] Slaughter graduated in Drama and Communications from the University of New Orleans . [ 4 ]
Hoffman made his film debut in 1967 when he appeared in the comedy The Tiger Makes Out. In the same year, his breakthrough role as Benjamin "Ben" Braddock, the title character in Mike Nichols ' comedy-drama The Graduate , led to Hoffman achieving star status and his first Academy Award nomination. [ 2 ]