Runaway Jury
2003 American legal thriller film by Gary Fleder / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Runaway Jury is a 2003 American legal thriller film directed by Gary Fleder and starring John Cusack, Gene Hackman (who had also starred in The Firm and The Chamber), 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. Meanwhile, a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game begins when juror Nicholas Easter (Cusack) and his girlfriend Marlee (Weisz) appear to be able to sway the jury to deliver any verdict they want in a trial against a gun manufacturer. The film was released October 17, 2003.
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Directed by | Gary Fleder |
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Based on | The Runaway Jury by John Grisham |
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Cinematography | Robert Elswit |
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Music by | Christopher Young |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 127 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $60 million[1] |
Box office | $80.2 million[1] |