The Client

Name: The Client
Released: 1994-7-20
Cast: Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Mary-Louise Parker, Anthony LaPaglia, J.T. Walsh

The Client

PG-13
2h 0m
1994

80%

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Eleven year-old Mark Sway knows he knows too much . . . about a killer and the location of a missing Senator's body. The Mafia wants to keep him quiet and has threatened his family. A federal prosecutor wants to learn exactly what he knows. He is an 11-year old boy in a terrifyingly adult world--and he doesn't know whom to trust. So he finds himself a lawyer, a woman as willing to fight as Mark is himself. She is smart and tough, and she wants to help him. If he can only trust her . . .

Director:

Joel Schumacher

Producer:

Arnon Milchan, Steven Reuther

Writer:

Akiva Goldsman, Robert Getchell

Cast:

Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Mary-Louise Parker, Anthony LaPaglia, J.T. Walsh, Anthony Edwards, Brad Renfro, Will Patton, Bradley Whitford, Anthony Heald, Kim Coates, Kimberly Scott, David Speck, William H. Macy, Ossie Davis

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

80%

Critics Consensus: The Client may not reinvent the tenets of the legal drama, but Joel Schumacher's sturdy directorial hand and a high-caliber cast bring John Grisham's page-turner to life with engrossing suspense.

Reviews

Christopher Street

Quentin Crisp

The film is hideously colored. The mere look of it sets the mood. It only gets darker as danger increases, and everyone becomes more deliciously beastly. I loved every minute of it.

...kicks off with an impressively riveting opening...