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Just Cause

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Original title: Just Cause
Year: 1995
Running time: 102 min.
Country: United States
Director: Arne Glimcher
Screenwriter: Jeb Stuart, Peter Stone. Novel: John Katzenbach
Music: James Newton Howard
Cinematography: Lajos Koltai
Cast: Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Ed Harris, Kate Capshaw, Blair Underwood, Ruby Dee, Kevin McCarthy, George Plimpton, Hope Lange, Chris Sarandon, Ned Beatty, Daniel J. Travanti, Taral Hicks, Scarlett Johansson, Christopher Murray, Liz Torres, Lynne Thigpen, Victor Slezak, Brooke Alderson, Richard Liberty, Joel S. Ehrenkranz, Barbara Jean Kane, Francisco Paz, Melanie Hughes, Ashley Holliday, Gary Landon Mills, Tony Bolano, Fausto RodríguezSee 15 More
Producer: Warner Bros., Fountainbridge Films, Lee Rich Productions. Producer: Sean Connery
Genre: Mystery. Thriller. Drama | Courtroom Drama / Lawyers. Southern Gothic
Movie Groups: John Katzenbach Adaptations
Synopsis: A brutal murder is committed in the Florida Everglades. Eight years later, a principled Harvard law professor tries to save the convicted man on Death Row who swears he's innocent of that crime. For the small-town detective who investigated the killing, however, there's no question he caught the right man--and no last-minute intervention is going to keep that cold-blooded killer out of the electric chair. Someone is the mastermind of a deadly game... and all roads lead back to the site of that long-ago murder--where, this time, there are two intended victims.

Critics' reviews

"It's brutal, horribly manipulative, and we've seen this stuff before in better pictures."

Desson Thomson: The Washington Post
"[It] starts out strong and then, boy, does it jump the rails (...) There is no psychological depth, no real motivation, no human values to weigh, just characters jerked here and there like puppets in an arbitrary plot (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: rogerebert.com
"[It] manages to be a notch above most of the mystery fare we've seen lately. It's a rich, humid mix of race, murder, and mystery that works well, even if it doesn't work perfectly (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"

Marc Savlov: Austin Chronicle
"[It] has been directed so antiseptically that it lacks all sense of lifelike detail. Despite good looks and some ostentatious technical polish, it offers a textbook example of direction (...) that's utterly out of sync with its subject matter"

Janet Maslin: The New York Times
"[It] ambles along for more than an hour as a perfectly respectable mystery procedural (...) But then all hell breaks loose, with one unconvincing twist after another being thrown at the audience"

Todd McCarthy: Variety
"For a story with so much going for it (...) 'Just Cause' is just not taut and thrilling enough (...) Connery, the old pro, seems exhausted by all he’s required to do (...) Poor man."

Lisa Schwarzbaum: Entertainment Weekly
"The picture builds to an action-packed climax but, both in terms of story and theme, it never really comes to a satisfying resolution. The longer you stay with it, the more routine and uninspired it seems -- not to mention cowardly."

Hal Hinson: The Washington Post
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