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The Pelican Brief
MEANRANK
64/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3310
- IMDb #2888
- Google retired #1251
- Rotten Tomatoes #3215
- Metacritic #3152
- Letterboxd #2816
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3525
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3290
- Metacritic Critics #3367
- Metacritic Audience #2730
- Criticker #2174
- Kinopoisk #2690
- AlloCiné #2612
- Trakt #2695
Every rating
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Lowest is Criticker on 44, highest is Google on 90. Critics average 54, everyone else 67.
See the most agreed on films →A brilliant law student writes a speculative legal brief theorizing the motive behind the assassination of two Supreme Court justices. Her document, though just an academic exercise, accidentally uncovers a devastating conspiracy involving a powerful oil tycoon. When those who have read the brief start turning up dead, she must go on the run with the help of an investigative journalist, trying to stay alive long enough to expose the truth.
Details
- Director
- Alan J. Pakula
- Writer
- Alan J. Pakula
- Based on
- The Pelican Brief by John Grisham
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Released
- 17 September 1993
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 141 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $45.0M
- Box office
- $195.3M
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