Featuring a late appearance by the fabulous Teresa Wright, who was getting selective about the parts she took by then. “I get an awful lot of scripts for television stuff and after you’ve played one woman in an old-age home you don’t want to do another. There’s no depth in those roles. It’s really not very rewarding... I just saw Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting and I must say there are some scenes where the acting is just marvelous. Matt was just a rock to work with . . . so sure, and so there for you all the time. For a young man, that’s really quite unusual.” (L.A. Times.)
Some other people are in it too, including Danny de Vito (in what feels like a rare straight role), Jon Voight, Mickey Rourke, Danny Glover, Mary Kay Place, Dean Stockwell, Virginia Madsen, Andrew Shue (the violent husband). And Michael Girardin (totally unsympathetic insurance president) and Roy Scheider.
A workmanlike Zoetrope production, photographed by John Toll in Memphis (in Panavision, thus 5 Select's cropped screening is not the best way to view it), music by Elmer Bernstein.
Loved the twist at the end, then not sure about the conclusion, really. He could have continued as a lawyer, approaching each case with the same integrity he did this one, rather than assume it would corrupt him. Grisham was of course a criminal lawyer, so should know what he's talking about. This is reportedly his own favourite adaptation.
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