A Time To Kill Script

Script by:Akiva Goldsman (Screenplay), John Grisham (Novel)
Directed by:Joel Schumacher
Year:1996

Plot:A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
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The Gingerbread Man Script

Script by:John Grisham (Writer), Clyde Hayes (Screenplay)
Directed by:Robert Altman
Year:1998

Plot:Savannah lawyer Rick Magruder is at a party celebrating his courtroom victory defending a cop killer when a member of the catering staff, Mallory Doss, discovers her car has been stolen. Having had a few drinks, Magruder offers to give her a lift home, a decision that turns into a one night stand. Rick soon learns that her nut-case father, Dixon, seems to have begun threatening her again. Rick puts the force of his law firm behind Mallory, who he barely knows, has Dixon picked up by the police, and subpoenas the girl's belligerent ex-husband, Pete, to testify against the old man. Dixon is put away in an asylum. However, he soon escapes, putting the lives of everyone who conspired against him in jeopardy.
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The Chamber Script

Script by:John Grisham (Author), William Goldman (Screenplay), Chris Reese (Screenplay)
Directed by:James Foley
Year:1996

Plot:Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.
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Christmas With The Kranks Script

Script by:John Grisham (Novel), Chris Columbus (Screenplay)
Directed by:Joe Roth
Year:2004

Plot:Luther Krank is fed up with the commerciality of Christmas; he decides to skip the holiday and go on a vacation with his wife instead. But when his daughter decides at the last minute to come home, he must put together a holiday celebration.
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Runaway Jury Script

Script by:John Grisham (Novel), Brian Koppelman (Screenplay), David Levien (Screenplay), Rick Cleveland (Screenplay), Matthew Chapman (Screenplay)
Directed by:Gary Fleder
Year:2003

Plot:A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.
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The Pelican Brief Script

Script by:Alan J. Pakula (Screenplay), John Grisham (Novel)
Directed by:Alan J. Pakula
Year:1993

Plot: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.
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The Rainmaker Script

Script by:Francis Ford Coppola (Screenplay), Michael Herr (Screenplay), John Grisham (Novel)
Directed by:Francis Ford Coppola
Year:1997

Plot:When Rudy Baylor, a young attorney with no clients, goes to work for a seedy ambulance chaser, he wants to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in their suit against an insurance company. But to take on corporate America, Rudy and a scrappy paralegal must open their own law firm.
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