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Just Cause [DVD] [1995] | ![Just Cause [DVD] [1995]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RAS265N9L._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Arne Glimcher
Actors: Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Capshaw, Blair Underwood, Ed Harris
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 8178
Format: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), Italian (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), Arabic (Subtitled), Bulgarian (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), German (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Romanian (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed), Italian (Dubbed)
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 7321900136235
ASIN: B00004D2YW
Theatrical Release Date: February 17, 1995
Release Date: January 24, 2000
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Amazon.co.uk Review
IJust Cause /I is a film that relies on phony plot twists and steals openly from any other thriller that it can remember. If there was a drinking game requiring players to drink during every cinematic "homage", you'd be tanked after its first 45 minutes. Take one case of racial injustice, place it in an exotic, exquisitely photographed location (the Florida Everglades), and bring in an outsider, played by a bankable star, to save the day. Make sure nothing appears as it seems. Add a couple of plot twists, some over-the-top character actors (Ed Harris, shamelessly riffing on Hannibal Lecter), stir, and serve. The big name in this case is Sean Connery, who plays a Harvard law professor summoned to the swamps by an apparently innocent death row inmate (Blair Underwood), who swears he didn't rape and kill that 11-year-old girl. He says he confessed because maverick psycho-cop Tanny Brown (Laurence Fishburne) made him play a solo game of Russian roulette. He says his Serial-killer neighbour on death row (Harris) committed the crime. Connery buys it, the audience buys it, and how could they not? Director Arne Glimcher (who made the lacklustre Mambo Kings) coerces everyone with simplistic plot manipulations. Characters are given no depth, and the actors are pawns moved about like pieces on a Cluedo gameboard. -- IDave McCoy, Amazon.com/I
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 Gripping and clever December 18, 2000
benreed@clara.co.uk (London. England)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This film is absolutely brilliant....heard nothing about it in the press but the cast is tops..and the storyline very clever..... its dirt cheap as well.... watch it...
Death Penalty Controversy May 18, 2009
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Sean Connery, excellent as always, plays the part of a Scottish Professor of Law at present teaching and lecturing in the United States. Vehemntly opposed to the death penalty, he agrees to help an elderly woman who says that her grandson is on 'death row', wrongly accused of murder. His investigations turn up evidence that the boy is innocent. The case is re-opened, the boy is freed and returns to his home town - much to the disgust of the town's police chief. Shortly afterwards, Connery's young wife and daughter are kidnapped. Connery has to enlist the reluctant help of the police chief and together they hunt the kidnapper. There is a shocking denouement in a Luisiana swamp; and Connery is forced to revise his opinions.
Nail biting stuff September 17, 2009
Barbara Postion
With such a brilliant cast, Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne and Ed Harris, what can go wrong! An absolute must be seen!
Fantastic November 8, 2007
twiggy
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you enjoy a film with a twist ignore the below and watch this. It doesn't last long but is a great film with many twists. Everyone enjoys sean in james bond etc (not my cup of tea) but here you can see him in a proper acting role rather than just playing some sort of action figure. Lots of jumps!
Castrated pride is the deadliest sin April 10, 2006
Jacques COULARDEAU (OLLIERGUES France)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
It could have been an excellent film if it had not turned a psychopath into a vengeful and spiteful singleminded human robot. The starting point was good. The man who had been convicted of a horrible crime and sentenced to die on the electric chair calls for the help of a Harvard anti-death-penalty law professor. He accepts under pressure from his wife who forgets to tell her husband something important. He discovers that justice in Florida means to manage to get convicted and sentenced to death someone whose guilt you are deeply convinced of, no matter what the evidence maybe and how illegal the procedure to get a confession had been. The real truth is going to emerge at the end. It is sordid and squalid and everything is nothing but a series of nasty consequences after the nasty first step on the road to dereliction and alienation. Though the film resembles a lot "Silence of the Lambs" it could have been perfect if they had not tried to turn it into a melodramatic mish-mash at the end. It is a lot more difficult to finish up a film than to start it. But it could have been at least as good as Seven but it wasn't. Yet it is a good thriller up to the last five minutes. One question though survives in our minds: what racial message is contained in this film, the main culprit being a black man? Is the series of crimes the proof that crime is inevitable as soon as it frinds some kind of a starting point? Yet who starts the whole series? Is a black man supposed to be seen as guilty as soon as we come across him because he is black and nothing else? And the black cop is definitely not better than the black criminal. Can we entrust police work to a black man? Etc. It is a shame in a way that the film is not clear on the racial question.
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