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Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Just Cause
Buried deep in the Florida Everglades is a secret that can save an innocent man or let a killer kill again.
1995 · 1h 42m · R
Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Arne Glimcher
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Just Cause
Overview
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.
Director and cast
- Arne Glimcher Director
- Sean Connery as Paul Armstrong
- Laurence Fishburne as Sheriff Tanny Brown
- Blair Underwood as Bobby Earl
- Kate Capshaw as Laurie Armstrong
- Ruby Dee as Evangeline
- Scarlett Johansson as Kate Armstrong
- Ed Harris as Blair Sullivan
- Christopher Murray as Detective T.J. Wilcox
- Daniel J. Travanti Cast
- Ned Beatty Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
26%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Despite its merits, the script fails to escape the silly season that fouls up so many thrillers, that time when the twists merely seem like the narrative equivalents of those violin shrieks on a cheesy score.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Rotten
It doesn't bog down in the bogs, but it's slow-moving just about everyplace else.
Peter Rainer, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
There is no psychological depth, no real motivation, no human values to weigh, just characters jerked here and there like puppets in an arbitrary plot.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
The longer you stay with it, the more routine and uninspired it seems -- not to mention cowardly.
Hal Hinson, Washington Post
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