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The Chamber (1996)

R 10/11/1996 (US) Crime, Drama 1h 53m

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Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.

James Foley

Director
John Grisham

Novel
Phil Alden Robinson

Screenplay
William Goldman

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Chris O'Donnell

Adam Hall
Gene Hackman

Sam Cayhall
Faye Dunaway

Lee Cayhall Bowen
Robert Prosky

E. Garner Goodman
Lela Rochon

Nora Stark
Bo Jackson

Sgt. Clyde Packer
Millie Perkins

Ruth Kramer
David Marshall Grant

Gov. David McAllister
Raymond J. Barry

Rollie Wedge
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A review by John Chard

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Written by John Chard on March 11, 2016

If you spend half as much time trying to be a lawyer instead of trying to be Dick Tracy, I might not be dead in five days.

The Chamber is directed by James Foley and adapted to screenplay by William Goldman and Phil Alden Robinson from the John Grisham novel of the same name. It stars Gene Hackman, Chris O'Donnell, Faye Dunnaway, Lela Rochon and Robert Prosky. Music is by Carter Burwell and cinematography by Ian Baker.

Young attorney Adam Hall (O'Donnell) fights to keep his Klansman grandfather, Sam Cayhall (Hackman), from the gas chamber.

Grisham famously slated the film, even shoulde... read the rest.

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