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Runaway Jury is a 2003 legal thriller film based on John Grisham's novel. It stars John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz as lawyers and jurors in a trial against a gun manufacturer.
Runaway Jury: Directed by Gary Fleder. With John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Weisz. A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.
- (106K)
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Gary Fleder
- 2003-10-17
Oct 17, 2003 · A thriller about a jury consultant who tries to manipulate a trial verdict for a gun manufacturer. The review praises the performances of Hackman, Hoffman and Cusack, but criticizes the ending and the plot holes.
In New Orleans, Louisiana, Celeste Wood's life is changed in a blinding flash when a failed day trader at her husband's stock brokerage firm shows up at his former workplace with a semiautomatic handgun and opens fire on his former colleagues, including Celeste's husband.
After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell Rohr against shady jury consultant Rankin Fitch, who uses illegal means to stack the jury with people sympathetic to the defense.
From master storyteller John Grisham and the director of Don't Say A Word comes a taut suspense-thriller that grabs hold of you and never lets go.