The Chamber
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.
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James Foley
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John Chard
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
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James Foley is the director of The Chamber.
The cast of The Chamber includes Millie Perkins as Ruth Kramer, Robert Prosky as E. Garner Goodman, Jane Kaczmarek as Dr. Anne Biddows, Richard Bradford as Wyn Lettner, Gene Hackman as Sam Cayhall, Chris O'Donnell as Adam Hall, Josef Sommer as Phelps Bowen, Greg Wayne Elam as Joe Lincoln, Harve Presnell as Attorney General Roxburgh, Nicholas Pryor as Judge Flynn F. Slattery, Faye Dunaway as Lee Cayhall Bowen, Greg Goossen as J.B. Gullitt, and more.
The duration of The Chamber is 1h 53 mins.
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The Chamber was released on 11 Oct 1996.
The Chamber is listed under Crime and Drama on Fanbiz.
The Chamber has 1 review on Fanziz, with an average rating of 5.0/10. One reviewer wrote: "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..."
