THE CLIENT(1994)
Two young boys go out for a smoke and end up
in an adventure they are not prepared for!
Susan Sarandon plays a lawyer who finds herself
with a young client in Mark Sway, one of the boys
who witness a murder, and now the mob is after
him! Tammy Lee Jones plays a famous lawyer
trying to find Mark and find out just what he
knows. A very good movie! B+
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The exceptionally fine cast--Susan Sarandon,
Tommy Lee Jones, J.T. Walsh, Mary-Louise
Parker, Anthony Edwards, William H. Macy,
Anthony LaPaglia, Ossie Davis, and Brad
Renfro--goes a long way toward making The
Client one of the more solidly enjoyable screen
adaptations of a John Grisham southern gothic
legal thriller. Teen-hearthrob Renfro is a natural,
playing a kid whose life is in jeopardy after he
witnesses the death of a Mob lawyer. Susan
Sarandon is the attorney who decides to look
after the boy; nobody can match her when it
comes to playing strong and protective maternal
figures (Thelma and Louise, Lorenzo's Oil, Dead
Man Walking). Sarandon won her fourth Oscar
nomination as best actress for this role, before
finally winning the following year for Dead
Man Walking. Author Grisham was so impressed
with former window dresser/fashion
designer/screenwriter-turned-director Joel
Schumacher's work on this movie that he later
asked him to direct A Time to Kill. --Jim Emerson