Directed by:
Joel SchumacherCinematography:
Tony Pierce-RobertsComposer:
Howard ShoreCast:
Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Mary-Louise Parker, Anthony LaPaglia, J. T. Walsh, Anthony Edwards, Brad Renfro, Will Patton, Bradley Whitford (more)VOD (1)
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Settle in. Take a deep breath. Hold tight. The best screen version yet of a novel by John Grisham (The Firm, The Pelican Brief) delivers all-out, moment-by-moment suspense! Headliners Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones join newcomer Brad Renfro in The Client, a whirlwind thriller that "starts like a house afire and keeps on blazing" (Chicago Tribune). Renfro plays Mark Sway, an 11-year-old torn between what he knows and what he can never tell. A hitman will snuff him in half a heartbeat if Mark reveals what he learned about a Mob murder. An ambitious federal prosecutor (Jones) will keep the pressure on until Mark tells all. Suddenly, Mark isn't a boy playing air guitar anymore. He's a pawn in a deadly game. And his only ally is a courageous but unseasoned attorney (Sarandon) who risks her career for him...but never imagines she'll also risk her life. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Susan Sarandon
USA
Best movies:
Thelma & Louise (1991)
The Front Page (1974)
Dead Man Walking (1995)
Tommy Lee Jones
USA
Best movies:
The Fugitive (1993)
JFK (1991)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Mary-Louise Parker
USA
Best movies:
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999) (TV movie)
Anthony LaPaglia
Australia
Best movies:
Trees Lounge (1996)
The Balibo Conspiracy (2009)
Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
J. T. Walsh
USA
Best movies:
Sling Blade (1996)
Misery (1990)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Anthony Edwards
USA
Best movies:
Top Gun: Maverick (2022) - a.f.
Flipped (2010)
Zodiac (2007)
Brad Renfro
USA
Best movies:
Sleepers (1996)
The Cure (1995)
Ghost World (2001)
Will Patton
USA
Best movies:
Into the West (2005) (series)
In the Soup (1992)
Remember the Titans (2000)
Bradley Whitford
USA
Best movies:
Awakenings (1990)
Philadelphia (1993)
Scent of a Woman (1992)
Anthony Heald
USA
Best movies:
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The X Files: Closure (1999) (video compilation)
8MM (1999)
Kim Coates
Canada
Best movies:
The Last Boy Scout (1991)
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Godless (2017) (series)
Kimberly Scott
USA
Best movies:
K-PAX (2001)
Falling Down (1993)
The Abyss (1989)
William H. Macy
USA
Ossie Davis
USA
Best movies:
The Hill (1965)
Roots: The Next Generations (1979) (series)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
William Sanderson
USA
Best movies:
Lonesome Dove (1989) (series)
Who Will Love My Children? (1983) (TV movie)
Blade Runner (1982)
Amy Hathaway
USA
Best movies:
14 Going on 30 (1988) (TV movie)
The Client (1994)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
William Richert
USA
Best movies:
Law and Disorder (1974)
Manic (2001)
My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Dan Castellaneta
USA
Best movies:
Bart Wars: The Simpsons Strike Back (1999) (video compilation)
The Simpsons: Heaven and Hell (2002) (video compilation)
The Simpsons: Too Hot For TV (1998) (video compilation)
John Diehl
USA
Best movies:
Falling Down (1993)
A Time to Kill (1996)
Con Air (1997)
John Fink
USA
Best movies:
Falling Down (1993)
What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)
Columbo: Ransom for a Dead Man (1971) (TV movie)