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Two Supreme Court Justices have been murdered. A lone law student turns her suspicions about the deaths into a speculative brief that sends shock waves into the highest levels of government. She finds herself embroiled in a terrifying web of intrigue extending to the highest levels of government. She writes a speculative legal brief exposing the activities of a powerful oil magnate. With the help of Gray Grantham, an investigative reporter, they suspect...

"Two John Grisham best-selling books come to life on the big screen in this drama-filled double-pack. The Pelican Brief finds Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington courting danger as they uncover a conspiracy tied to the murders of two Supreme Court Justices. Then Matthew McConaughey and Sandra Bullock join forces to save a black man from death in A Time to Kill." --Container.

The pelican brief: Two Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everyone else wants her dead. The client: A dying New Orleans attorney tells eleven-year-old Mark Sway a deadly secret about the recent murder of a Louisiana senator whose accused killer, a Mafia thug, is about to go to trial. Runaway jury: After a man dies in a shooting incident, his...