In this book, Grisham REALLY gets in there with the lawyers AND the jury as characters...just about everyone. Minus one. You can probably guess.
And is THAT BRUCE MCGILL I SPY?!!! YAY!!!
Higher than a kite and ready for an adaptation of a very fine book!
I think I only read it five times.
Dustin Hoffman Compares “Genius” Gene Hackman To Marlon Brando: “A Giant Among Actors”
#Obituaries #DustinHoffman #GeneHackman #Obituary #RunawayJury
https://deadline.com/2025/02/dustin-hoffman-compares-genius-gene-hackman-marlon-brando-1236304979/
Of all the films based on John Grisham novels, Runaway Jury is the least plausible. And that’s a high bar considering that two of his other films are about an assassin-employing law firm and a rich man’s plan to murder his way into a favorable Supreme Court ruling. Grisham writes airplane thriller paperbacks that somehow manage to class themselves up through court proceedings and three-piece suits. No shade there; they’re entertaining. Jury goes the extra mile in how it stretches the bounds of suspension of disbelief toward its breaking point. And yet, it’s also one of the best film adaptations