• The Pelican Brief is a 1993 American legal thriller film based on the 1992 novel by John Grisham. Directed by Alan J. Pakula, the film stars Julia Roberts...
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  • The Pelican Brief is a legal-suspense thriller by John Grisham, published in 1992 by Doubleday. It is his third novel after A Time to Kill and The Firm...
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    into films: The Chamber, The Client, A Painted House, The Pelican Brief, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, and Skipping Christmas. Grisham, the second of...
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  • Look up pelican in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A pelican is a bird of the family Pelecanidae. Pelican may also refer to: Pelican, New South Wales...
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    Alan J. Pakula (category People from the Bronx)
    Presumed Innocent (1990), and The Pelican Brief (1993). Pakula received Academy Award nominations for Best Director for All the President's Men and Best Adapted...
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    guest-starring as Vin Makazian on The Sopranos (1999–2004). Other films include The Trip to Bountiful (1985), Big (1988), The Pelican Brief (1993), White Chicks (2004)...
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    in the legal thriller The Pelican Brief, an adaptation of the John Grisham novel of the same name. During the late 1990s, she played the lead in the romantic...
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    The Pelican Brief (1993), the AIDS drama Philadelphia (1993), the action thriller Crimson Tide (1995), the war drama Courage Under Fire (1996), the sports...
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    The brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) is a bird of the pelican family, Pelecanidae, one of three species found in the Americas and one of two that...
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    Casey Biggs (category The New School faculty)
    television role was on the 1990s TV series Stat. He has appeared in movies such as The Pelican Brief, Broken Arrow, Dragonfly and the Star Trek documentary...
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  • John Finn (category Male actors from the Bronx)
    (1994), The Pelican Brief (1993), and Glory (1989). TV series that Finn has had recurring roles on include Dawson's Creek, The Practice, The X-Files,...
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  • including works as varied as Where the Red Fern Grows, The New York Times bestsellers such as The Pelican Brief (in the film adaptation of which he also...
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    Pelicans (genus Pelecanus) are a genus of large water birds that make up the family Pelecanidae. They are characterized by a long beak and a large throat...
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  • 1976 film All the President's Men. He appeared in two other films directed by Pakula, See You in the Morning (1989) and The Pelican Brief (1993). He has...
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    earned the most at the box office, as of 2021[update], include: Pretty Woman (1990) Hook (1991) Sleeping with the Enemy (1991) The Pelican Brief (1993)...
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    the role in its sequel Die Hard 2 (1990). Other film credits include No Mercy (1986), The Pelican Brief (1993), Bio-Dome (1996), Mad City (1997), The...
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    Jake Weber (category English expatriate male actors in the United States)
    directors as Sidney Lumet (A Stranger Among Us, 1992), Alan J. Pakula (The Pelican Brief, 1993) and Martin Brest (Meet Joe Black, 1998). He scored one of his...
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    Robert Culp (category The Interviews name ID same as Wikidata)
    Beep Beep of the Tom Tom") as Simon 1991 Timebomb as Mr. Phillips 1993 The Pelican Brief as The President of The United States 1994 The Nanny (TV series)...
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    and The Pelican Brief (1993), where he was reunited with Washington. He was cast in a main role in the 1996 television sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun,...
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    Kiss Taylor The Public Eye Sal 1993 Undercover Blues Muerte The Pelican Brief Khamel 1994 It Could Happen to You Eddie Biasi Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle...
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    Adrienne King (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
    for numerous Hollywood productions throughout the 1990s, including Philadelphia (1993), The Pelican Brief (1993), Wolf (1994), Cameron Crowe's Jerry Maguire...
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    being ousted as Prime Minister. The name "Pelican files" is a reference to the 1993 political thriller The Pelican Brief. The files were released at a time...
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  • Carol Sutton (actress) (category Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Louisiana)
    productions such as The Pelican Brief, Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh, American Horror Story: Coven, True Detective, Kidnap, The Last Exorcism, Outer...
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  • Justice Jensen in The Pelican Brief (1993), Judge Assel Steward in Suspect (1987); a Marine Lieutenant in Starman (1984); and played the part of Braddock's...
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    credits were The Pelican Brief, Spies Like Us, and My Fellow Americans; television appearances included episodes of Newhart, Mr. Belvedere, The Golden Girls...
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    Actor for his role as Chuck Yeager in the film The Right Stuff (1983). The following year, he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay...
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    RoboCop 3 and The Pelican Brief. He appeared in Michael Bay's movies The Rock and Armageddon; in both films, he played the role of the US president. His...
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    Hume Cronyn (category The Interviews name ID same as Wikidata)
    his role in the TV Movie Age-Old Friends. His later appearances included the films The Pelican Brief (1993), Marvin's Room (1996) and the Showtime TV...
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  • Nicholas Woodeson (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
    other actor in the film. He has also appeared in, among others, The Russia House (1990), The Pelican Brief (1993), Shooting Fish (1997), The Man Who Knew...
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  • The 1994 MTV Movie Awards was hosted by Will Smith. Performers included Bon Jovi, Nate Dogg & Warren G., Toni Braxton and John Mellencamp with Me'Shell...
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