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John Cusack (Actor), Gene Hackman (Actor), Gary Fleder (Director) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Weisz, Bruce Davison
  • Directors: Gary Fleder
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: English, French, Italian
  • Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
  • DVD Release Date: 14 Jun. 2004
  • Run Time: 127 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (107 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0001M1K0G
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,207 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Gary Fleder's film is based on the novel by John Grisham but with a slight change in story: instead of the tobacco industry, the filmmakers decided to use the firearms industry. Attorney, Wendell Rohr (Dustin Hoffman) is hired by the wife of a man who died in a shooting. She wants to sue the company that manufactured the gun because they allegedly knew the shop that sold it was not following federal regulations. The company's legal team hire Rankin Fitch (Gene Hackman), a high-priced and ruthless jury 'consultant' whose job it is to learn incriminating secrets about the jury - and if neccessary use them to secure a favourable verdict. But two members of the jury, Nick Easter (John Cusack) and Marlee (Rachel Weisz) have their own agenda and are not for bending. This was Hoffman and Hackman's first ever film together.

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Based on the bestseller by John Grisham, Runaway Jury is a slick thriller that's exciting enough to overcome the gaps in its plot. The ultimate target has been changed: Grisham's legal assault on the tobacco industry was switched to the hot-button issue of gun control (no doubt to avoid comparisons with The Insider) in a riveting exposé of jury-tampering. Gene Hackman plays the ultra-cynical, utterly unscrupulous pawn of the gun-makers, using an expert staff and advanced electronics to hand-pick a New Orleans jury that will return a favourable verdict; Dustin Hoffman (making his first screen appearance with real-life former roommate Hackman) defends the grieving widow of a gun-shooting victim with idealistic zeal, while maverick juror John Cusack and accomplice Rachel Weisz play both ends against the middle in a personal quest to hold gun-makers accountable. It's riveting stuff, even when it's obvious that Grisham and director Gary Fleder have glossed over any details that would unravel the plot's intricate design. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

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5.0 out of 5 starsPyschological Thriller That Works
By Malcolm Clarke on 10 May 2007
Format: DVD
Nicholas Easter is a complicated man. Played by John Cusack, as the viewer you will get the wrong impression of the man, that is the intention.

The first thing you will be surprised at is the lengths at which Gene Hackman will go to secure "his" verdict, or the verdict that is required for his clients. Dustin Hoffman is the prosecuting lawyer, and together with his team, a cat and mouse game develops behind the scenes between Nick Easter, manipulating the jury, and Hackman, trying to continue controlling verdicts by clever jury selection and stealth tactics. Hackman will stop at nothing, he is big-time. Rachel Weisz plays the co-conspirator of Easter, and she is a great actress. You get a good feel for her vulnerability in the "big-time" against Hackman, which nicely sets up the twist in the plotline, and makes her character more real.

The jury scenes are interesting and each of the jurors characters are developed nicely so that when deliberations start you are almost second guessing what the characters are going to say.

This is a great film, with some great scenes between hollywood greats Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman. Yet another must for your collection, this is film that suits your tastes when you want to both watch and think about the movie, it is gripping and interesting from start to finish.
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4.0 out of 5 starsTop pedigree, middling result.
By Mr. Stephen Kennedy VINE VOICE on 9 Jun. 2007
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
Another John Grisham thriller is churned out as a star studded movie. It seems the books with the most thrills have been taken, as this is somewhat pedestrian, although still entertaining.

So what's it about? A big trial against the gun manufacturers is in progress, and both sides are anxious to have the jury on their side. The gun manufacturers hire Gene Hackman, representing the dark corporate side of jury manipulation. However, the apple-cart is upturned when it turns out that the jury is already being manipulated and may be for sale, engineered by someone on the jury and an accomplice (Weisz).

The collection of stars is fantastic - Hackman, Hoffman, Cusack, Weisz. In fact, as the interesting extras point out, Hackman and Hoffman have never shared screen time before. Seeing them in their one big screen moment together is the highlight of the movie. Hackman does not quite bring the same complexity to the role as he did to his other Grisham movie, `The Firm', but he lends real gravitas to his unscrupulous jury consultant. Hoffman is unusually restrained for the most part to play a convincing attorney, but it's Cusack once again who shows himself as a truly natural talent, morphing into just about any role he is given with ease. Here, the entertainment is in watching him manipulate the jury with some applied psychology, while his own motivation remains obscured until a time of his choosing.

Most of the movie is a bidding war and cat and mouse game, until the final denouement unveils the true motivation in a reasonably satisfying way. Along the way, the thriller elements seem shoehorned in, with the real joy in watching the process of choosing and manipulating the jury - the indictment of the system the movie is aiming at.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA psychological thriller that leave one wondering
By RR Waller TOP 1000 REVIEWER on 15 Nov. 2011
Format: DVD
In newspapers today, details of a trial beginning at the Old Bailey with the selection of twelve jurors from a group of twenty-four, is front page news, as it will be for weeks to come. This film, set in America, where the legal system (and almost everything else) is different, leaves one wondering whether Blind Justice atop the Bailey's dome has occasionally peeked. I jest, of course - it is only a film and the recent television series "The Jury" (November 2011) renewed all our faith in the jury system. "I had rather... haue his twelve Godvathers, good men and true, contemne him to the Gallowes." Thomas Randolph (1635)

In this 2004 film, the complicated Nicholas Easter, played by John Cusack, gives the viewer (intentionally) the wrong impression in this taut, psychologically engaging thriller and, just when viewers think they have the story by the tale, another twist emerges.

For many years, based on solid experience, I have accepted that films starring Dustin Hoffman or Gene Hackman will be great films. To have both of them pitted against each other in the same film, makes me doubly certain and I was not wrong.

Without giving anything away, parties on both sides need to secure the right verdict in this trial and both will go to great lengths so to do; although it stretches belief on occasions, it is a film and "suspension of disbelief" is what they are all about. The DVD has transferred a great film to make it available to everyone at a basic price and, when the plot takes one of its turns, viewers can always re-wind!

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4.0 out of 5 starsHow to buy a jury ...
By Marshall Lord TOP 500 REVIEWER on 20 Jan. 2007
Format: DVD
This is an exciting and entertaining thriller, which has been marketed as an expose of jury tampering. However, the storyline also has a very strong position on the manufacture and sale of guns.

The story is underpinned by the assumption that everyone associated with the firearms industry is totally corrupt and evil, and that all those involved at any stage of assembly or distribution in supplying a weapon to any murderer are as much to blame for his actions as he is. If you strongly disagree with that opinion, then unless you can suspend your views while watching the film you will not enjoy it.

Like most Brits I am considerably more sympathetic to gun control than polls suggest the average American is, but I still had to think myself into a harder line anti-gun position than I actually hold in order to enjoy "Runaway Jury". Ironically however, this will probably be a problem for fewer people on this side of the Atlantic than in the country where the film was made.

Most people will find it a gripping story. The film begins with the father of a little boy celebrating his son's sixth birthday before going to work, where he is shot dead when a recently sacked colleague returns to his former office with an assault rifle and kills a large number of his former co-workers before turning the gun on himself. Then the film jumps on two years to jury selection in the case which the widow is bringing against the manufacturer of the weapon with which her husband was murdered.

Dustin Hoffman plays the local lawyer who represents the widow: he is assisted by a big-city expert on jury selection who joins the team for 30% of his usual fee because of his opposition to firearms.Read more ›
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1.0 out of 5 stars7 minutes heavily removed version

Again, the UK cut the 7 minutes from the original movie. I just hate them so much.

Published 6 days ago by Hee Chul Kwon
5.0 out of 5 starsVery good watching.

Interesting concept. Had this been a documentary it just shows that the American legal system is no more than a controlled show and those in the forfront wanting an award. Read more

Published 16 days ago by Robbert
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5.0 out of 5 starsA film almost as good as the book!

Brilliant film! John Cusack at his best 😊

Published 1 month ago by SticksNic
4.0 out of 5 starsGood film, book is better

The book is one of my favourites and is better.

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5.0 out of 5 starsA movie to keep your attention.

Good movie, had seen it before but one you can re-visit without it getting boring.

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5.0 out of 5 stars“Somebody always loses, just not me.” [Rankin Fitch ]

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