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With lives and millions of dollars at stake, juror Nicholas Easter and his girlfriend Marlee, one on the inside and the other on the outside, together manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.
As in all his films, there's a sense that honest human emotion bores Fleder, but he gets points for packing the trial with fine character actors, all of them adept at wringing humor and poignancy from cliche.
The best Grisham adaptation yet, this one is definitely worth a look.
July 20, 2004
Common Sense Media
Legal thriller isn't aimed at kids.
December 28, 2010
New York Observer
A lot of famous faces populate the courtroom in this overplotted and farfetched tale of jury-tampering, but they and the horse they rode in on are all so mired in illogical, head-scratching incoherence, they need lawyers of their own.
The film's action is limited to repeatedly ransacking Cusack's apartment, and the plot is rife with Big-Brother-is-watching paranoia.
October 16, 2004
Washington Post
A taut, escapist legal thriller.
October 17, 2003
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
...the best cinematic rendering of a Grisham novel ever, which is either saying a quite lot or very little at all, depending upon your view of things Grisham.
January 29, 2005
Slate
In spite of its cheesy plot twists, thoroughly second-rate direction, and criminally wasted ensemble, Runaway Jury adds up to a nice little gotcha! courtroom melodrama.