The Client

A Time to Kill
$14.98
This is a very good dramma. this movie is really good. samul l. jackson is awesome in this movie. this is a must see

John Grisham's The Rainmaker (Special Collector's Edition)
$12.98
Good revenge movie, and more darts thrown at the legal profession and the insurance business.
Damon gives his ususal lackluster performance, but the plot is gripping enough to hold attention. Danny Glover plays a liberal judge, who helps guide the Damon character to victory.

The Client [VHS]
$14.98
While sometimes verging on caricature, the film comes through with an exciting story , well told. I wouldn't call it realistic; rather as Raymond Chandler said of his "gritty" stories of Bay City, California, and environs, they are romances, not sociology. From its earliest moments, one knows that this kid is in trouble, the question is what happens to him once the law and the killers know he has information helpful to the first, damning to the second. Tommy Lee Jones, as the ambitious U.S. Attorney is directed to give an over the top performance but the last, more human scenes, save the film from falling into the pit of farce. Susan Sarandon does a fine job as the kid's attorney and Renfro, as the kid with dangerous knowledge, does a fine job of being a pain in the neck without losing the special qualities of an eleven year old.
I note from the product information that the film has been around a while but, since there is nothing timely in the story, it is as good as new, so to speak. It will hold your interest .

The Client
$15.00
STORY BRIEF:
Mark and his younger brother live in a trailer park with their single mother who works a low wage job. The boys went into the woods to sneak a cigarette. They discover a man they don't know trying to kill himself by running a hose from his car's tailpipe into the car window. Mark pulls the hose from the tailpipe twice before the man (Jerome) sees him. Jerome forces Mark into the car to die with him. Mark escapes, and then Jerome shoots himself. Jerome was the defense attorney for a mafia killer named Barry the Blade. Barry killed a senator and hid the body. Law enforcement, the FBI and mafia guys are after Mark. They believe Jerome may have told Mark where the body was, but Mark won't tell anyone. Mark asks Reggie a lawyer for help. She charges him a dollar and becomes his attorney.

REVIEWER'S OPINION:
I didn't want to stop reading. What an adventure. Great plot, neat characters, well done suspense. I'm a lover of romance novels and rarely read other genres, so I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this. One of the neat things about this book was the emotional fulfillment. It's got the "David vs. Goliath" theme. I can see why they made it into a movie which I saw many years ago. But as is usually the case, the book is much better than the movie.

DATA:
Sexual content: none. Setting: current day Memphis, Tennessee, and New Orleans area, Louisiana. Copyright: 1993. Genre: legal suspense thriller.