Runaway Jury (Wide Screen)

Advantages: Gene Hackman
Disadvantages: Worst adaptation of a Grisham story

...couldn't wait to watch the Runaway Jury as I loved the book. DISAPPOINTED, is an understatement, the film does not follow the Grisham novel, and in the way they have adapted it, have made a film which has a plot which is so weak that at times I felt myself laughing at its implausibility. Saying that, I watched this with someone who had not read the novel, and they thought that it was a very engrossing and clever thriller. The film centers round ...
...to be disappointed. Runaway Jury is only £5.97 on Amazon which is a fare price for the film. = Trivia = - This is Gene Hackman's and Dustin Hoffman's first film together. At the Pasadena Playhouse they were classmates and were both voted "Least Likely to Succeed". - Courtesy of IMDB ... Read review

Advantages: John Cusack, great story
Disadvantages: If you've read the book, it might be pants.

...off because it was crap. Runaway Jury (the film in question) is actually quite fabby. I know, I watched it later. ---The Film--- We begin in an office in America. Not surprisingly, everyone gets shot. Well it is in a bbfc 15 rated vision of America, what did you expect? The random shooting of our American buddies leads to the beginnings of a court case. Dustin Hoffman (or Dustpan Hoffbin as I shall be calling him for no reason other than boredom) ...
...side of the people who are dead. Gene Hackman (or Janine Pac-man, for the same reasons stated previously) would be on the side of the gun company having its sweet ass sued. I guess that makes him evil? Now that we have established our good camps and bad camps, we get the task of choosing the jurors for the case. Nicholas Easter is to be one of them. That's Cusack by the way. While Pac-Man and Hoffbin are trying their best to win the jury over, with ... Read review

Advantages: Good acting and direction
Disadvantages: Hoffman and Hackman don't spend enough time onscreen together

...it was announced that the Runaway Jury was due to be released as a film I decided to make the effort and see it. It’s one of the few books by him that I haven’t read, although it is buried deep within my to-read pile. So with very little to do on a Sunday night I chose to finally watch it. Like so many of Grisham’s books it starts with a major event to set the story. It’s early Monday morning in the offices of a high profile ...
...an ex employee, sacked just one week before turns up and starts to kill his old co-workers. He starts to fire shots off around the office and after killing 12 people and injuring countless others he turns the gun on himself. We then fast forward a few months. The widow of one of the victims is suing the manufacturers of the gun that killed her husband for his death. She has called in Wendell Rohr (Dustin Hoffman), an anti gun lobbyist to fight her ... Read review

Advantages: entertaining film, well acted
Disadvantages: it's been done before

The Runaway Jury: If you have ever been called up for Jury Service in the UK you know that the first few days at least are pretty boring, sitting in a room potentially for a great portion of the day without your name being called. And even if you do get called there is no guarantee that you will sit on a jury. I've done Jury service twice and I was lucky enough to be called twice, I have to say that it was interesting. As regular Joe public I've ...
...is not strictly true. Runaway Jury is adapted from a book by John Grisham, the book tells the story of a woman that attempts to sue a tobacco company. The film has been altered, changing the tobacco company with a gun company. I assume that the screenwriters felt that guns would hold peoples interest more than cigarettes, and in my opinion they were right. This lead to a much more interesting opening scene with a lot more tension that if taken directly ... Read review

Advantages: Thrilling edge of the seat drama!
Disadvantages: Hollywood!

...few. So when I saw Runaway Jury as one of the choices on my return flight from New York, I knew I had to watch it, if the others were anything to go by, I would love it. Set amidst some stunning scenery within the deep south of America, the gun capital of the world, the opening scenes are happy ones shared on a child’s birthday and then at the father’s office where he is asking for his secretary’s help with his child’s present, ...
...be something going on outside his office, gun shots can be heard, screaming, people running away frantically from the gun shots, panicking for their own safety, then silence, the scene ends. Some time has passed, approximately eighteen months when we learn that the gunman was an ex employee of the company who turned the gun on himself after killing quite a few others in the building, the widow of the man we met at the opening scenes is taking the ... Read review