Synopsis
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.
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Cast
- Sean ConneryPaul Armstrong
- Laurence FishburneSheriff Tanny Brown
- Blair UnderwoodBobby Earl Ferguson
- Kate CapshawLaurie Armstrong
- Ruby DeeEvangeline Ferguson
- Scarlett JohanssonKate Armstrong
- Ed HarrisBlair Sullivan
- Christopher MurrayDetective T.J. Wilcox
- Daniel J. TravantiWarden
- Ned BeattyMcNair
Recommendations
- 75
San Francisco Chronicle
Despite a few shortcuts and some small but nagging inconsistencies -- not to mention weak performances in a couple of key roles -- Just Cause delivers. - 67
Austin Chronicle
It's a rich, humid mix of race, murder, and mystery that works well, even if it doesn't work perfectly. - 63
ReelViews
Despite its tendency to tread well-traveled roads, Just Cause is filmed with enough energy and craft that, for the majority of its one-hundred minute running time, it's reasonably entertaining. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
By the end of Just Cause, you’ll be wondering if the world really needed a second remake of Cape Fear. But its first two thirds are tense if not exactly taut, and Fishburne’s performance is a lesson in how a truly inspired actor can breathe quirky life into a tired cliché. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
When the movie's over, you realize that the first hour only seemed convincing: The whole movie is made out of thin air. - 50
San Francisco Examiner
The plot falls with a thud, but the movie is surprisingly involving owing to performances by Connery, who is always an unfaltering standard of honesty and truth; by Fishburne, who has to flip-flop his meanness for frustrated indignation in the end; and by Harris, who actually seethes so hard the veins stand out on his bald skull. - 40
Washington Post
The longer you stay with it, the more routine and uninspired it seems -- not to mention cowardly. - 40
Washington Post
It's brutal, horribly manipulative, and we've seen this stuff before in better pictures.
