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Issue: Spring 2003
Runaway Jury (2003) movie review
Conscience for Hire
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"Trials are too important to be left up to juries."
A gun trial in good time time New Orleans becomes a behind-the-scenes drama when a couple puts the verdict up for sale.
Elegantly-written and well-paced, Runaway Jury is a variation of the classic trial movie. Like The Juror and others, this movie is about the efforts of one side to prevail in the adversarial system by taking the fight outside.
This jury can be bought for $16 a day and a brown bag lunch.
In Runaway Jury the players are a legal team representing the wife of a man murdered in a workplace killing spree, the legal team and backroom fixers representing the gun making companies, the jury whose lives are torn open by those seeking to force the verdict, and outside a woman promising to provide the verdict to the highest bidder.
Movie poster, Runaway Jury
Trials are too important to be decided by juries.
"I'm in it to win ... everything else is coloured bubbles."
Like all movies in which John Cusack appears, Runaway Jury is interesting and has a point to it. Whether you take the point to be one about the inherent weaknesses of an adversarial system, especially one that tends to support the deepest pockets, or about gun control, or whether you simply watch for the suspense and the final reveal, this movie has something interesting to offer.
Make gun violence the gun industry's problem.
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Just the facts:Title: Runaway Jury (2003) The Players: John Cusack, Bruce Davison, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Weisz, Bruce McGill, Geremy Piven, Jennifer Beals, Nora Dunn, Rusty Schwimmer, Ned Bellamy Official website: IMDb entry For session times of current films, use the cinema listings on the Movie links page. For scheduled release dates, see the coming attractions section. For more information about this movie, check out the internet movie database. |
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