Lacking the surface glitz, attention-grabbing plot and star power of John Grisham's previous adaptations, Folley's film will also suffer due to comparisons with the similarly-themed and better Tim Robbins' Dead Man Walking, released last year.
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The Chamber
Overview
Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.
Director and cast
- James Foley Director
- Chris O'Donnell as Adam Hall
- Gene Hackman as Sam Cayhall
- Faye Dunaway as Lee Cayhall Bowen
- Robert Prosky as E. Garner Goodman
- Lela Rochon as Nora Stark
- Bo Jackson as Sgt. Clyde Packer
- Millie Perkins as Ruth Kramer
- David Marshall Grant as Gov. David McAllister
- Raymond J. Barry as Rollie Wedge
- Nicholas Pryor as Judge Flynn F. Slattery
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