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CrimeDrama

The Chamber

- Time is running out.

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.

Release Date : 1996-10-11

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Universal PicturesImagine EntertainmentDavis Entertainment

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Chris O'Donnell

Character Name : Adam Hall

Original Name : Chris O'Donnell

Gender : Male

Gene Hackman

Character Name : Sam Cayhall

Original Name : Gene Hackman

Gender : Male

Faye Dunaway

Character Name : Lee Cayhall Bowen

Original Name : Faye Dunaway

Gender : Female

Robert Prosky

Character Name : E. Garner Goodman

Original Name : Robert Prosky

Gender : Male

Lela Rochon

Character Name : Nora Stark

Original Name : Lela Rochon

Gender : Female

Bo Jackson

Character Name : Sgt. Clyde Packer

Original Name : Bo Jackson

Gender : Male

Millie Perkins

Character Name : Ruth Kramer

Original Name : Millie Perkins

Gender : Female

David Marshall Grant

Character Name : Gov. David McAllister

Original Name : David Marshall Grant

Gender : Male

Raymond J. Barry

Character Name : Rollie Wedge

Original Name : Raymond J. Barry

Gender : Male

Nicholas Pryor

Character Name : Judge Flynn F. Slattery

Original Name : Nicholas Pryor

Gender : Male

Richard Bradford

Character Name : Wyn Lettner

Original Name : Richard Bradford

Gender : Male

Harve Presnell

Character Name : Attorney General Roxburgh

Original Name : Harve Presnell

Gender : Male

Josef Sommer

Character Name : Phelps Bowen

Original Name : Josef Sommer

Gender : Male

Jane Kaczmarek

Character Name : Dr. Anne Biddows

Original Name : Jane Kaczmarek

Gender : Female

Seth Isler

Character Name : Marvin B. Kramer

Original Name : Seth Isler

Gender : Male

Greg Wayne Elam

Character Name : Joe Lincoln

Original Name : Greg Wayne Elam

Gender : Male

Greg Goossen

Character Name : J.B. Gullitt

Original Name : Greg Goossen

Gender : Male

Reviews

J

John Chard

@John Chard

2024-05-16

If you spend half as much time trying to be a lawyer instead of trying to be Dick Tracy, I might not be dead in five days. The Chamber is directed by James Foley and adapted to screenplay by William Goldman and Phil Alden Robinson from the John Grisham novel of the same name. It stars Gene Hackman, Chris O'Donnell, Faye Dunnaway, Lela Rochon and Robert Prosky. Music is by Carter Burwell and cinematography by Ian Baker. Young attorney Adam Hall (O'Donnell) fights to keep his Klansman grandfather, Sam Cayhall (Hackman), from the gas chamber. Grisham famously slated the film, even shouldering some of the blame himself, it's not hard to see why. It's a legal drama without any drama, it plods aimlessly along, getting by on Hackman's fully committed performance. At times it forgets its legal duties and gets wrapped up in family strife, which would be OK if this aspect of the story had anything worthwhile to say, it doesn't, and you can see the cast and director straining to make a two hour talkathon worthy of your time. It isn't, sadly, making it the poorest Grisham adaptation to screen. 5/10