Based on the best-seller by John Grisham, Alan J. Pakula's film stars Julia Roberts as law student Darby Shaw, who stumbles onto information linking the murders of two Supreme Court Justices. After her law professor boyfriend Thomas Callahan (Sam Shepard) is murdered, Darby must go underground; on the run, a reporter (Denzel Washington) helps her piece together the conspiracy. -- Jason Ankeny, All-Movie Guide
