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Titolo originale: The Chamber
Regia: James Foley |
Anno: 1996
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Crime Dramma
Tag: ku klux klan | doomed man | legal drama |
Cast: 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 |

In una prigione dello Stato del Mississippi, Sam Cayhall è in attesa si essere mandato a morte per l'assassinio di due bambini uccisi con una bomba anni prima, nel 1967. Riceve la visita di Adam Hall, giovane e inesperto avvocato che gli dice di volersi impegnare per salvarlo non solo per motivi professionali ma anche perché è suo nipote. Sam, scontroso e irascibile, sostenitore della razza bianca, si rifiuta di collaborare, e così Adam fa tutto da solo, fino a raggiungere il governatore dello Stato che all'epoca dei fatti aveva incastrato Sam ed ora dovrebbe concedere la grazia. Intanto Adam, con molta pazienza e insistenza, riesce a scavare nel passato della famiglia di Sam (e della sua) e a ricostruire i tragici rapporti tra lui, il figlio morto, ossia suo padre, e la figlia dedita all'alcool. Appare allora chiaro che Sam ha assunto su di sé colpe che erano di altri. La grazia viene negata e Adam resta sconfortato e deluso ma più maturo come uomo e come avvocato.

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Second appearance of Gene Hackman in a film about Ku Klux Klan thematic after Mississippi Burning - [...]	D
The second John Grisham novel film adaptation to be released in 1996. The other was Il momento di uc [...]	D
One of three cinema movies where actor Gene Hackman played a character with the first name of "Sam". [...]	D
Sigourney Weaver was considered for the role of Lee Cayhall.	D
The second of two films that was filmed in 1996 that was written by Academy Award-winning screenwrit [...]	D
Val Kilmer was announced for the lead after the departure of Brad Pitt.	D
The film debut of Bo Jackson, who was a celebrated two-sport baseball and football player. He was ca [...]	D
Not since Gangster Story (1967) (29 years earlier) have Gene Hackman and Faye Dunaway co-starred in [...]	D
Robert Prosky and Raymond J. Barry previously appeared in Dead Man Walking - Condannato a morte (199 [...]	D
Gene Hackman and Faye Dunaway play father and daughter even though in real life, he is only 11 years [...]	D
The fourth of six John Grisham film adaptations to be shot in anamorphic 2.35:1 format. The others a [...]	D
The execution scene was filmed in the actual gas chamber at Parchman Penitentiary in Sunflower Count [...]	D
This was the least successful of John Grisham's novels to be adapted theatrically at the box office [...]	D
The character of Rollie Wedge was beefed up considerably from the novel with the aim that Jack Nicho [...]	D
Gene Hackman and David Marshall Grant also appear in Bat*21 (1988).	D
The third film written or adapted by Oscar Winner William Goldman that was produced, filmed or relea [...]	D
Charlton Heston was considered for the role of Sam Cayhall.	D
William Goldman had adapted the novel, originally providing several drafts when Ron Howard was attac [...]	D
Gene Hackman portrays Faye Dunaway's father, but is only 11 years older than her in real life.	D
The story of the freakish execution that Sam tells Adam, about a condemned prisoner beating his head [...]	D
In a 2006 BBC TV Culture Show interview, John Grisham stated that this was the adaptation of his wor [...]	D
Trailer narrated by Don LaFontaine.	D
During the execution scene at the end of the film, one of the members of the crowd cheering and hold [...]	D
William Goldman, who wrote the early drafts, was reportedly unsatisfied with the re-writes and never [...]	D
Ron Howard was originally set to direct the film, with Brad Pitt set to play Adam Hall. When Howard [...]	D
This is the second of three film adaptations of a John Grisham novel in which Gene Hackman starred, [...]	D
Universal paid $7 million for the rights to John Grisham's novel.	D
One of two movies that James Foley directed and was also released in theaters in 1996. The other was [...]	D

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