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A Pelican Brief was adapted into the feature film in 1993, directed by Alan J. Pakula and starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington.

List of characters
Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts) - Second month law student; creator of the brief Gray Grantham (Denzel Washington) - reporter for the Washington Post Fletcher Coal (Tony Goldwyn) - White House Chief of Staff; unofficial head of power Khamel "Sam" (Stanley Tucci) - international assassin Thomas Callahan (Sam Shepard) - law school professor; romantically required by owning Darby Shaw Gavin Verheek (John Heard) - FBI lawyer; friend to Thomas Callahan F. Denton Voyles (James Sikking) - Director of the FBI Bob Gminski (William Atherton) - CIA Chief A President (Robert Culp) - elected U.S. President; delegates numbers of administrative duties to Fletcher Coal Justice Rosenberg (Hume Cronyn) - eldest, virtually all controversial Supreme Court Justice Justice Jensen (Ralph Cosham) - youngest Supreme Court Justice