Academy Award® winners** Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington headline and Alan J. Pakula (Presumed Innocent, All the President's Men) directs this first-rate thriller based on the John Grisham bestseller. Two Supreme Court justices have been murdered and a lone law student (Roberts) turns her suspicions about the deaths into a speculative brief that sends shock waves into the highest levels of government. She and a determined investigative reporter (Washington) want to tell the world what they have uncovered if they can live to tell it. The race is on and these two are more than runners. They're moving targets.
**Roberts: Best Actress for Erin Brockovich (2000); Washington: Best Actor for Training Day (2001) and Best Supporting Actor for Glory (1989).
| Julia Roberts | Darby Shaw |
| Denzel Washington | Gray Grantham |
| Sam Shepard | Thomas Callahan |
| John Heard | Gavin Verheek |
| Tony Goldwyn | Fletcher Coal |
| James B. Sikking | Denton Voyles |
| William Atherton | Bob Gminski |
| Robert Culp | President |
| Stanley Tucci | Khamel |
| Hume Cronyn | Justice Rosenberg |
| John Lithgow | Smith Keen |
| Anthony Heald | Marty Velmano |
| Nicholas Woodeson | Stump |
| Stanley Anderson | Edwin Sneller |
| John Finn | Matthew Barr |
| Cynthia Nixon | Alice Stark |
| Jake Weber | Charles Morgan (a.k.a. Garcia) |
| Casey Biggs | Eric East |
| Christopher Murray | Rupert |
| Sonny Jim Gaines | Sarge |
| Kevin Geer | K.O. Lewis |
| Joe Chrest | Song and Dance Man from Bar |
| Richard Bauer | Managing Editor |
| Michelle O'Neill | Sara Ann Morgan |
| Peter Carlin | Edward Linney |
| Ralph Cosham | Justice Jensen |
| Terrence Currier | Rosenberg's Nurse |
| Edwin Newman | Himself |
| Helen Carey | Federal Clerk |
| Howard Shalwitz | Washington Herald Journalist |
| Kyle Prue | News Desk Reporter |
| Jewell Robinson | |
| Kim Peter Kovac | |
| Norman Aronovic | |
| Carl Palmer | Cop in Cowboy Boots |
| Carol Sutton | New Orleans Policewoman |
| Scott Jefferson | Lt. Olsen |
| Daniel Kamin | Hooten |
| Mark McLaughlin | |
| Robert Pavlovich | |
| Magee Hickey | Herself |
| Constance Yelverton | Clerk at Sheraton Hotel |
| Kim Kettle | Gavin Verheek's Wife |
| Ellie K. Wang | Reporter at National Cathedral |
| Franchelle Stewart Dorn | University Registrar |
| Karen Bralove | University Placement Clerk |
| Teagle F. Bougere | Male University Student |
| Carey Varner | Female University Student |
| Saundra Quarterman | Laura Kass |
| Cynthia Hood | Parklane Receptionist |
| Alan Wade | Parklane Administrator |
| Harold Surratt | Parklane Security Officer |
| Paul Morella | White & Blazevich Attorney |
| Ed Johnson | White & Blazevich Security Guard |
| Jurian Hughes | White & Blazevich Receptionist |
| Dick Stilwell | White & Blazevich Security |
| Tom Quinn | Sara Ann Morgan's Father |
| Beverly Brigham | Safe Deposit Teller |
| Eliza Coleman | Female Pursuer with Gun |
| Doug Coleman | Male Pursuer with Gun |
| Michael Port | |
| Shanna Connell | |
| Gene Babb | |
| Kyle D. Duvall | |
| Karl Warren | |
| Carrie Boren | |
| James Earl Reed | |
| Stephen Goldblatt | Director of Photography |
| Tom Rolf | Film Editor |
| Trudy Ship | Film Editor |
| James Horner | Composer |
| James Sabat | production sound mixer |
| Ron Bochar | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Fred Rosenberg | Sound Editor |
| Richard Portman | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Rick Dior | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Michael J. Cerone | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Albert Wolsky | Costume Designer |
| Philip Rosenberg | Production Designer |
| Robert Guerra | Art Director |
| Carlane Passman Little | Costume Designer |
| George L. Little | Costume Designer |
| Connie Brink | Visual Effects |
| Bob Mills | Make-Up Artist |
| Edna M. Sheen | Make-Up Artist |
| Neal Martz | Make-up Effects |
| John Nelson | Visual Effects |
