Runaway Jury (2003)

Name: Runaway Jury
Genre: Drama
Duration: 127 min
Cast: John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Weisz, Bruce Davison

Runaway Jury

PG-13

Drama

Documentary

Thriller

Release Date: January 16, 2003
Director: Gary Fleder
Cast: John Cusack , Gene Hackman , Dustin Hoffman , Rachel Weisz , Bruce Davison , Bruce McGill
Runtime: 127
Main Genre: Drama
Writers: John Grisham , Brian Koppelman , David Levien , Rick Cleveland , Matthew Chapman
Tagline: Trials are too important to be decided by juries.

Summary

Set in New Orleans, this is the story of a mysterious man, Nick Easter (Cusack) gets himself not only on the jury of a landmark case against a gun manufacturer, but as the foreman, in an attempt to influence the other jury members to vote a certain way (in partnership with his girlfriend, Marlee, played by Weisz, who tries to swindle the attorneys outside the jury). The case involves the widow of a man killed in an office shooting suing the gun manufacturer of the weapon that was used, under the claim that they knew the store that sold it was not obeying the laws about firearm sales.