"The Pelican Brief The Pelican Brief is a legal-suspense thriller written by John Grisham in 1992. It is his third novel after ""A Time to Kill"" and ""The Firm"". The hardcover edition was published by Doubleday in that same year. Two paperback editions were published, both by Dell Publishing in 1993. A film adaptation was released in 1993 starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington. The story begins with the double assassinations of two ideologically divergent Supreme Court Justices. Both murders are committed by Khamel, one of the most wanted terrorists in the world. Justice Rosenberg, a liberal, is killed at"
"the movie, which starred Tom Cruise, grossed over $158 million ($ million in 2013 dollars) domestically and $111 million internationally ($270 million worldwide in 1993 dollars). Additionally, it was the largest grossing R-rated movie of 1993 and of any film based on a Grisham novel. The film was released while Grisham was at the height of his popularity. That week, Grisham and Michael Crichton evenly divided the top six paperback spots on The New York Times Best Seller list. Both the novel and the film recount the story of an upstart attorney who was hired out of college by Bendini,"
"her time to protecting the animals. Fossey is shown as an independent woman, breaking the common trope of women being the homemaker. Jurassic Park (1993) The 1993 film Jurassic Park, based on the novel by Michael Crichton depicts a paleobotanist, Dr. Ellie Sattler. She is portrayed with great physical ability, allowing her to survive multiple attacks from dinosaurs. She is shown to have extensive knowledge about dinosaurs and plant life throughout the movie. Gravity (2013) The 2013 film ""Gravity"", directed by Alfonso Cuarón and starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, is often heralded as a breakthrough feminist film due to"
"The Sea Wolf (1993 film) The Sea Wolf is a 1993 American-Canadian made-for-television adventure drama film directed by Michael Anderson, starring Charles Bronson, Catherine Mary Stewart and Christopher Reeve. It is based on Jack London's novel ""The Sea-Wolf"". The film was nominated for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie, or a Special at the 45th Primetime Emmy Awards. Jack London's brutal Wolf Larson brings a shipwrecked aristocrat and a con woman aboard his doomed ship, the Ghost. Ray Loynd wrote for the ""Los Angeles Times"": The production rivals the classic Edward G. Robinson remake (Warner Bros., 1942), generally cited"
"reviews and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Her 1991 novel ""A Dangerous Woman"" was named by ""Time"" as one of its Five Best Novels of the Year and as one of the best books of the year by American Library Association (ALA) Library Journal. Based on ""A Dangerous Woman,"" Morris won the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award. The novel was adapted for a 1993 movie of the same name, which starred Debra Winger, Gabriel Byrne, David Strathairn, Barbara Hershey, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jake Gyllenhaal. Her 1995 novel (her"
"As of 2012, his books have sold over 275 million copies worldwide. A Galaxy British Book Awards winner, Grisham is one of only three authors to sell 2 million copies on a first printing, the other two being Tom Clancy and J. K. Rowling. Grisham's first bestseller, ""The Firm"", sold more than seven million copies. The book was adapted into a 1993 feature film of the same name, starring Tom Cruise, and a 2012 TV series which ""continues the story of attorney Mitchell McDeere and his family 10 years after the events of the film and novel."" Eight of his"
"based on an original concept by John Romano, author of ""The Third Miracle"" (Agnieszka Holland, 1999) and had been developed into a screenplay by Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone, who wrote ""Big Trouble"" (Barry Sonnenfeld, 2002) and ""Life"" (Ted Demme, 1999). The script was passed among directors and writers for several years, usually starting from the Coens' version. Initially the screenplay was attached to Ron Howard and then Jonathan Demme, who had planned to cast Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant in the lead roles. After their planned film of James Dickey's novel ""To The White Sea"" fell through, the Coens"
"currently holds a 55% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 22 reviews. Heart and Souls Heart and Souls is a 1993 American fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Ron Underwood. The film stars Robert Downey Jr. as Thomas Reilly, a businessman recruited by the souls of four deceased people, his guardian angels from childhood, to help them rectify their unfinished lives, as he is the only one who can communicate with them. In San Francisco, 1959, four despondent strangers embark on the same night trolleybus: Penny, a single mother, regrets working the night shift and leaving her three children at home;"
"was released in 1993. The film became extremely successful. In 1992, Crichton published the novel ""Rising Sun"", an international best-selling crime thriller about a murder in the Los Angeles headquarters of Nakamoto, a fictional Japanese corporation. The book was adapted into the 1993 film directed by Philip Kaufman and starring Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes, released the same year as the adaption of ""Jurassic Park"". His next novel, ""Disclosure"", published in 1994, addresses the theme of sexual harassment previously explored in his 1972 ""Binary"". Unlike that novel however, Crichton centers on sexual politics in the workplace, emphasizing an array of"
"The book was adapted into an indie film entitled ""The Fundamentals of Caring"", starring Paul Rudd, Selena Gomez, Craig Roberts, Jennifer Ehle, and Megan Ferguson. The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving is the third novel by American author Jonathan Evison, published in 2012. The novel's plot revolves around the relationship between the titular caregiver, Ben Benjamin, and his teenage charge, Trevor Conklin, who suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The two take a road trip together and encounter a variety of characters and roadside attractions along their way to their ultimate destination, Trevor's father Bob. Evison dedicated"
"also inserts himself into the novel (as a character). The novel was made into a 1993 film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, Pat Morita, Angie Dickinson, Keanu Reeves, John Hurt, Rain Phoenix, Ed Begley, Jr., Carol Kane, Victoria Williams, Sean Young, Crispin Glover, Roseanne Arnold, Buck Henry, Grace Zabriskie, and Treva Jeffryes. Robbins himself was the narrator. """"Cowgirls ..."""" has been considered by Gus Van Sant to be a 'hippy' novel. Robbins writes short chapters filled with philosophical asides and quips (such as noting that because amoebae reproduce by binary fission, the first amoeba"
"(1993) about her encounters with Willie and Elmo Patrick Sonnier, the first convicted murderer for whom she had served as spiritual adviser, and with personnel in the prison system. She explored the effects of holding people on Death Row and being involved in executions for guards, chaplains and other officials. She has become an advocate to abolish the death penalty. Her book was adapted for a 1995 film of the same name, starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. The character Matthew Poncelet, played by Penn in the film, and his crime, were drawn from Willie and Sonnier. The book was"
"The Ice Storm The Ice Storm is a 1994 American novel by Rick Moody. The novel was widely acclaimed by readers and critics alike, described as a funny, acerbic, and moving hymn to a dazed and confused era of American life. In 1997, the novel was adapted into an acclaimed feature film directed by Ang Lee, featuring a cast including Joan Allen, Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood, Tobey Maguire and Katie Holmes in her screen debut. The novel takes place over Thanksgiving weekend 1973, during a dangerous ice storm, and centers on two neighboring families, the Hoods"
"occurrence is prominent in the structures and character relationships of two further novels by Cunningham, Specimen Days and A Home at the End of the World. The Hours (novel) The Hours is a 1998 novel written by Michael Cunningham. It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was later made into an Oscar-winning 2002 movie of the same name starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore. The book concerns three generations of women affected by the classic novel ""Mrs. Dalloway"". In Richmond, 1923, author Virginia Woolf is writing ""Mrs. Dalloway"" and struggling"
"from James Berardinelli, who said that ""[v]ery little of what made the written version so enjoyable has been successfully translated to the screen, and what we're left with instead is an overly-long [and] pedantic thriller."" Grisham enjoyed the film, remarking: ""I thought [Tom Cruise] did a good job. He played the innocent young associate very well."" The film was released while Grisham was at the height of his popularity. That week, Grisham and Michael Crichton evenly divided the top six paperback spots on ""The New York Times"" Best Seller list. It opened on June 30, 1993 in 2,393 theatres, and"
"to alter people's lives. She thinks the people she loves are better than they really are, and so then she starts changing things around to suit her point of view of them."" In 1994, a television movie based on the book was made for the Hallmark Hall of Fame. It was directed by John Erman, and starred James Garner and Joanne Woodward as Ira and Maggie Moran. It was filmed in the Pittsburgh PA area. Joanne Woodward won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance. Kevin McKeon also adapted the novel into a stage"
"was so successful that it spawned a television series of the same name, starring JoBeth Williams and John Heard. It ran for one season (1995–1996). The Client (novel) The Client (1993) is a legal thriller written by American author John Grisham, set mostly in Memphis, Tennessee and New Orleans, Louisiana. It is Grisham's fourth novel. Boyd Boyette, a United States Senator from Louisiana, goes missing. Because of his vocal opposition to a proposed major toxic landfill project by a company known to be Mafia-backed, murder is suspected. But no body can be found and Roy Foltrigg, United States Attorney in"
"from critics. It currently holds a 20% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 10 reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of ""C-"" on an A+ to F scale. Boiling Point (1993 film) Boiling Point is a 1993 American action film written and directed by James B. Harris, and starring Wesley Snipes, Dennis Hopper, Lolita Davidovich and Viggo Mortensen. The film was released in the United States on April 16, 1993. This was James B. Harris' last film. It is based on the novel ""Money Men"" by former U.S. Secret Service agent Gerald Petievich, who co-wrote the"
"1993. The adaptation was directed by Chris Columbus, and written by Randi Mayem Singer and Leslie Dixon. Robin Williams played the eponymous character, and Sally Field played his wife Miranda. In the film, his disguise is so well done that no one in his family recognizes him at first, the nanny and Miranda get very close. Greg Cannom, Ve Neill, and Yolanda Toussieng received the Academy Award for Best Makeup for creating ""Mrs. Doubtfire"". Madame Doubtfire Madame Doubtfire, known as Alias Madame Doubtfire in the United States, is a 1987 English novel, written by Anne Fine for teenage and young"
"book was adapted as a screenplay by Marguerite Roberts for the Western film ""True Grit"" directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Kim Darby as Mattie Ross, Robert Duvall as ""Lucky"" Ned Pepper, Glen Campbell as LaBoeuf, Jeff Corey as Tom Chaney, and John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn (a role that won John Wayne Best Actor at the Academy Awards). A film sequel, ""Rooster Cogburn"", was produced from an original screenplay in 1975, with John Wayne reprising his role, and Katharine Hepburn as an elderly spinster, Eula Goodnight, who teams with him. The sequel was not well received, and the plot"
"Douglas Gresham's book ""Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and CS Lewis"". It was also performed in London as an award-winning stage play in 1989–90. The play was transferred successfully to Broadway in 1990–91 with Nigel Hawthorne and Jane Alexander starring, and was also revived in London in 2007. A cinema film version was released in 1993, with Anthony Hopkins as Jack (C. S. Lewis) and Debra Winger (in an Academy Award-nominated performance) as Joy Davidman. C. S. Lewis wrote an epitaph originally on the death of Charles Williams; he adapted it to place on his wife's grave. <poem>Here"
"Mr. Hyde"" from the point of view of a servant in the doctor's house, was released in 1996 as the Columbia TriStar Pictures film, ""Mary Reilly"". It is directed by Stephen Frears and stars John Malkovich as Dr. Jekyll and Julia Roberts as Mary. The short subject film ""Surface Calm"" (2001) is based on her short story of the same title from her first book, ""Love"" (1977). With her niece, Lisa Martin, she wrote the children's book, ""Anton and Cecil"". She has one child, Adrienne, born in 1975. Valerie Martin Valerie Martin (born 1948, Missouri) is an American novelist and"
"in order to get her part right. A success with critics and at the box office alike, ""Ocean's Eleven"" became the fifth highest-grossing film of the year with a total of US$450 million worldwide. In 2003, Roberts was cast in Mike Newell's drama film ""Mona Lisa Smile"", also starring Kirsten Dunst, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Julia Stiles. Roberts received a record US$25 million for her portrayal of a forward-thinking art history professor at Wellesley College in 1953 – the highest ever earned by an actress until then. The film garnered largely lukewarm reviews by critics, who found it ""predictable and safe""."
"and starring Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Claire Danes, Jon Voight, and Danny Glover. The Rainmaker (novel) The Rainmaker is a 1995 novel by John Grisham. This was Grisham's sixth novel. It differs from most of his other novels in that it is written almost completely in the simple present tense. Rudy Baylor is about to graduate from Memphis State Law School. He secures a position with a Memphis law firm, which he then loses when the firm is bought up by another larger firm. As one of the few members of his class without a job lined up, a desperate"
"Forrest Gump Forrest Gump is a 1994 American comedy-drama film based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom. It was directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Eric Roth, and stars Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, and Sally Field. The story depicts several decades in the life of Forrest Gump (Hanks), a slow-witted but kind-hearted man from Alabama who witnesses several defining historical events in the 20th century in the United States. The film differs substantially from the novel. Principal photography took place in late 1993, mainly in Georgia, North Carolina, and South"
"when it ultimately became a hit with the public. ""The Day of the Jackal"" was followed four years later by ""Julia"" (1977), based on a story in the book ""Pentimento"" by Lillian Hellman. The film starred Jane Fonda as Hellman and Vanessa Redgrave as her best friend Julia, a doomed American heiress who forsakes the safety and comfort of great wealth to devote her life to the anti-Nazi cause in Germany. The film was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won three, for Best Screenplay (Alvin Sargent), Best Supporting Actor (Jason Robards), and Best Supporting Actress for Redgrave, who drew"
"Freefall (1994 film) Freefall is a 1993 American action film starring Eric Roberts, Jeff Fahey and Pamela Gidley. It is directed by John Irvin, written and produced by David Zito and Les Weldon. Wildlife photographer Katy Mazur is sent to Africa on an assignment by her fiancé Dex Dellum to track down the rare bird falcon talon. While there, she meets a parachuter named Grant Orion, whom she has an affair with. Little does she know, he is there to rescue her from becoming a target of an assassin organisation. Originally intended for a theatrical release, the movie was released"
"Daniel (film) Daniel is a 1983 British-American drama film which was adapted by E. L. Doctorow from his 1971 novel ""The Book of Daniel"". It was directed by Sidney Lumet. The film was based on the life story of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted as spies and executed by the United States government in 1953 for giving nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union. This story follows their fictionalized son as he attempts to find out the truth.They were both executed by the electric chair. Paul and Rochelle Isaacson (the Rosenbergs) are played by Mandy Patinkin and Lindsay Crouse."
"The Firm (novel) The Firm is a 1991 legal thriller by American writer John Grisham. His second book, it was Grisham's first which gained wide popularity; in 1993, after selling 1.5 million copies, it was made into a film starring Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman and Jeanne Tripplehorn. Grisham's first novel, ""A Time to Kill"", came into prominence afterwards due to this novel's success. Mitchell Y. ""Mitch"" McDeere is a graduate of Western Kentucky University with a degree in accounting, who has passed his Certified Public Accountant exam on the first attempt and graduated third in his class at Harvard Law"
"and starred Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, and Aidan Quinn; it won the 1995 Academy Award for cinematography. Jim Harrison had a writing credit for the film. Other films he scripted or co-wrote include ""Cold Feet"" (1989), with Keith Carradine, Tom Waits, and Rip Torn and ""Revenge"" (1990), starring Kevin Costner. For his work on the screenplay for ""Wolf"" (1994, starring Jack Nicholson) Harrison, along with co-writer Wesley Strick, shared the Saturn Award for Best Writing. NOTE: Jim Harrison James Harrison (December 11, 1937 – March 26, 2016) was an American writer known for his poetry, fiction, reviews, essays about the"
"Carnosaur (film) Carnosaur is a 1993 American science fiction horror film written and directed by Adam Simon. The film stars Diane Ladd, Raphael Sbarge, Jennifer Runyon, and Harrison Page. The film's plot revolves around a mad scientist who plans to recreate dinosaurs and destroy humanity. The film is loosely based on the 1984 novel ""Carnosaur"" by John Brosnan (under the pseudonym of Harry Adam Knight). The book and film have little in common, with the exception of the villain's same basic motive, and the explicit gore and violence. It was the only film based on a Brosnan novel to be"
"Heart and Souls Heart and Souls is a 1993 American fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Ron Underwood. The film stars Robert Downey Jr. as Thomas Reilly, a businessman recruited by the souls of four deceased people, his guardian angels from childhood, to help them rectify their unfinished lives, as he is the only one who can communicate with them. In San Francisco, 1959, four despondent strangers embark on the same night trolleybus: Penny, a single mother, regrets working the night shift and leaving her three children at home; Harrison, a would-be singer, has backed out of an important audition due"
"Mary Reilly (novel) Mary Reilly is a 1990 parallel novel by American writer Valerie Martin. It is inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel ""Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"". It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1990 and the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1991. Martin's novel was the basis for the 1996 film of the same name starring Julia Roberts in the title role. The novel is about a young girl working at the home of Dr. Henry Jekyll who falls in love with her master. Jekyll's ""assistant"", Edward Hyde,"