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 (4)
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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)
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Joel Schumacher can't deny that topic. Good subject, good execution, acting adequately standard for a collection of 90's actors, where you have to admit that young Brad Renfro was a great talent. While watching this movie, you keep thinking the whole time that it doesn't make any sense, that nobody would behave like that. The CIA, the lawyer, the boy's mother, even the young boy, it's like they fell from Mars. But the truth is, you eventually forgive them for that 90's feeling. It's not a miracle, but it's still better than many movies today.
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Boyhood adventures in the adult world of lawyers, mobsters, private eyes, crooked cops, and slimy mobsters. If the whole concept of the story is based on a ten-year-old silly Jack Sprat outsmarting all the wise-asses, it's hard to execute without all the adults acting like complete idiots. And Schumacher, with his Foglar-esque (wink wink nudge nudge) fondness for plucky, marginalized youths, was certainly never capable of that.
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