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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). Pearson Longman released the graded reader edition in 2001 (ISBN 0-582-43405-X).
The novel sold 7 million copies and the movie, which starred Tom Cruise, [4] grossed over $158 million ($333 million in 2013 dollars [5]) domestically and $111 million internationally ($270 million worldwide in 1993 dollars). [6] [7] Additionally, it was the largest grossing R-rated movie of 1993 and of any film based on a Grisham novel. [8]
Bestselling novelist John Grisham returns with a work of non-fiction, co-written by Jim McCloskey, the founder of Centurion, an organization that advocates for the wrongfully-convicted.
The Client (also referred to as John Grisham's The Client) is an American legal thriller drama television series developed by Judith Paige Mitchell that aired on CBS for one season, premiering with a two-hour pilot on September 17, 1995, [1] and airing new episodes through April 16, 1996.
The Los Angeles Times called the book "an indictment of the legal system from law school to the jury’s verdict." [2] Entertainment Weekly wrote that "if The Rainmaker’s outcome is a bit predictable, Grisham’s vivid minor characters and near-Dickensian zeal for mocking pomposity and privilege are apt to endear him to his many readers all over again."
The Appeal is a 2008 novel by John Grisham, his 21st book and his first fictional legal thriller since The Broker in 2005. [1] The novel explores the interplay of corporate power, politics, and judicial ethics in the U.S. legal system, focusing on the influence of money in judicial elections.