Director:
Gary FlederCámara:
Robert ElswitMúsica:
Christopher YoungReparto:
John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Weisz, Bruce Davison, Bruce McGill, Jeremy Piven, Nick Searcy, Stanley Anderson, Cliff Curtis (más)Streaming (4)
Sinopsis(1)
La viuda de una víctima de una masacre demanda al fabricante del arma homicida. La apuesta es fuerte, el juicio será explosivo. Hay millones de dólares en la balanza, y un especialista en jurados sin escrúpulos (Gene Hackman), hará todo lo que esté en su mano para garantizar que el jurado sea favorable a su cliente. La tensión crece hasta que se descubre que uno de los miembros del jurado (John Cusack) intenta manipularlo. Entonces, las tornas cambian. ¿Qué puede ocurrir cuando todos los implicados en un caso están dispuestos a casi todo por ganar...? (20th Century Fox España)
(más)Reseñas (2)
A tame and routine staging of one big trial and the associated string-pulling outside the courtroom. It has a stellar cast featuring Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman, but lacks in emphasis, more sophisticated grip and memorable scenes. Purely average, a nineties movie shot a decade too late.
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Another tale from the pen of John Grisham on the subject of courtroom drama, this time focusing ostentatiously on the jurors and ways of influencing them. It's not quite a typical courtroom drama, as the flip side of the whole case comes to the fore here, and the trial itself is presented only as a formal guarantee of justice for the public and the media. The decision-making and the most important part of the trial here takes place in an ultra-gray zone, which contributes to the much larger impression of a courtroom thriller and at some points even breathtaking action scenes (within the courtroom drama genre definitely). As a whole, Runaway Jury is unfortunately oddly uneven, which prevents me from ranking it among the top films from the courtroom setting. But if you seek out genre films with a similar tone, you should definitely not miss this. Within the genre, it's still strongly above average.
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