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The Pelican Brief (1993) [PG-13]

Release Date:
September 17, 1993

Original Title:
The Pelican Brief

Alternate Titles:
Die Akte
Die Akte - Der Pelican Brief
Die Akte - The Pelican Brief
Dossier Pelicano
El Informe Pelícano [The Pelican Brief]
El informe Pelícano
El informe pelícano
Pelikan Dosyasi
Pelikan-notatet
Pelikani memorandum

Genres:
Thriller

Production Companies:
Warner Bros. Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AU: M  BR: 16  CH: 12  CZ: 15+  DE: 12  DK: 15  ES: 12  FI: K-12  FR: 12  GB: 12  HU: 12  IE: PG  KR: 15  NL: 12  PL: 16  PT: M/12  SE: 15  SK: 12  US: PG-13 

Runtime: 141

Two Supreme Court Justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everybody else wants her dead.

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A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.

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Production

Additional Second Assistant Director:
Michael Proscia Jr.

Art Direction:
Robert Guerra

Assistant Accountant:
Michael R. Kern
Edward Allen

Assistant Editor:
Elizabeth Sherry

Associate Producer:
Donald Laventhall

Boom Operator:
Louis Sabat

Camera Operator:
Dick Mingalone

Casting:
Alixe Gordin

Casting Associate:
Michele Ortlip

Costume Design:
Albert Wolsky

Dialogue Editor:
Magdaline Volaitis
Robert Hein
Marissa Littlefield

Director:
Alan J. Pakula

Director of Photography:
Stephen Goldblatt

Editor:
Tom Rolf
Trudy Ship

Extras Casting:
Kimberly Skyrme
Rick Landry

First Assistant Director:
Peter Kohn

First Assistant Editor:
Kelly Irvine

Local Casting:
Ramsay King
Benita Hofstetter

Location Manager:
Charles Lum
Michael Wallace
Gary Huckabay
Foongy Lee

Novel:
John Grisham

Original Music Composer:
James Horner

Post Production Supervisor:
Kerry Orent

Producer:
Alan J. Pakula
Pieter Jan Brugge

Production Accountant:
Cheryl A. Stone

Production Assistant:
Shinique Smith

Production Design:
Philip Rosenberg

Production Office Coordinator:
Patricia Serafina Madiedo
Allison Sherman

Production Secretary:
Sallie Jones Arata

Production Sound Mixer:
James Sabat

Property Master:
Thomas Saccio

Rigging Gaffer:
John Shoemaker

Screenplay:
Alan J. Pakula

Script Supervisor:
Dianne Dreyer

Second Assistant Director:
John Rusk

Second Second Assistant Director:
Trey Batchelor

Set Decoration:
Rick Simpson
Lisa Fischer

Set Production Assistant:
David M. Bernstein

Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Ron Bochar
Michael J. Cerone
Rick Dior
Richard Portman

Steadicam Operator:
Ted Churchill

Still Photographer:
Ken Regan

Stunt Coordinator:
Doug Coleman

Stunts:
Eliza Coleman
Tabby Hanson
Richard L. Blackwell
David Efron
Roy Farfel
Eric Chambers
Linda Perlin
Mick O'Rourke

Supervising Sound Editor:
Ron Bochar

Unit Production Manager:
Celia D. Costas

Unit Publicist:
Jeanmarie Murphy-Burke

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