Runaway Jury

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Runaway Jury (2003)

PG-13 10/09/2003 (US) Drama, Thriller 2h 7m

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Trials are too important to be decided by juries.

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A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.

Gary Fleder

Director
John Grisham

Novel
Rick Cleveland

Screenplay
Matthew Chapman

Screenplay
David Levien

Screenplay
Brian Koppelman

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John Cusack

Nicholas Easter
Gene Hackman

Rankin Fitch
Dustin Hoffman

Wendell Rohr
Rachel Weisz

Marlee
Bruce Davison

Durwood Cable
Bruce McGill

Judge Harkin
Jeremy Piven

Lawrence Green
Nick Searcy

Doyle
Stanley Anderson

Henry Jankle
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This offers quite an interesting look at just how seriously big business takes the selection of a jury, when large amounts of money are at stake. Gene Hackman is "Fitch", a man who makes a very good living acting on behalf of these organisations. His job is to probe into the private lives of prospective jurors, of their loves, peccadillos, politics - looking for weaknesses or reasons not to select them. This case involves one of the most contentious in the US pantheon of criminal law - the right to bear arms, and it falls to "Rohr" (Dustin Hoffman) to bring an action against a weapons manufactu... read the rest.

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