The read
Audiences rate it 15 points higher than critics do. Most of the 707 1990s crime movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6/10
Rotten Tomatoes13%
Metacritic45/100
Audiences rate it 15 points higher than critics do.
289 audience votes
Key crew
- James FoleyDirector
- William GoldmanScreenplay
- Carter BurwellOriginal Music Composer
- Phil Alden RobinsonScreenplay
Cast
- Chris O'DonnellAdam Hall
- Gene HackmanSam Cayhall
- Faye DunawayLee Cayhall Bowen
- Robert ProskyE. Garner Goodman
- Lela RochonNora Stark
- Bo JacksonSgt. Clyde Packer
- Millie PerkinsRuth Kramer
- David Marshall GrantGov. David McAllister
- Raymond J. BarryRollie Wedge
- Nicholas PryorJudge Flynn F. Slattery
- Richard BradfordWyn Lettner
- Harve PresnellAttorney General Roxburgh
Stills
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Themes
ku klux klandoomed manlegal dramafather son relationship