Chris O'Donnell

Gene Hackman

Faye Dunaway

Robert Prosky

Lela Rochon

Bo Jackson

Millie Perkins

David Marshall Grant

Raymond J. Barry

Nicholas Pryor

Richard Bradford

Harve Presnell

Josef Sommer

Jane Kaczmarek

Seth Isler

Greg Wayne Elam

Greg Goossen

James Foley

William Goldman

John Davis

Brian Grazer

Ron Howard

Ric Kidney

Carter Burwell

Ian Baker

Mark Warner

John Grisham

Todd Sible

Phil Alden Robinson

David T. Friendly

Karen Kehela Sherwood

Karen Snow

Mali Finn

David Brisbin

Mark Worthington

Lisa Fischer

Tracy Tynan

Lance Anderson

Lon Bentley

Bonnie Clevering

Angel De Angelis

Leonard Engelman

Iraina Gibson

Deborah Mills-Whitlock

Ron Scott

Ellen Wong

Webster Whinery

Jim McConnell

Doc Duhame

Nils Allen Stewart

Hugh Aodh O'Brien

Kevin Grevioux

Ray Conchado

Crime

Drama

The Chamber

Universal Pictures

Imagine Entertainment

Davis Entertainment

United States of America

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

English

The Chamber (1996) Official Trailer - Chris O'Donnell, Gene Hackman Movie HD