Runaway Jury / ClassAction DVD

Box-set containing two popular dramas starring Gene Hackman. In `Runaway Jury`, attorney Wendell Rohr (Dustin Hoffman) is hired by the wife of a man who died in a shooting. She wants to sue the company that manufactured the gun because they allegedly knew the shop that sold it was not following federal regulations. The company`s legal team hire Rankin Fitch (Hackman), a high-priced and ruthless jury `consultant` whose job it is to learn incriminating secrets about the jury - and if neccessary use them to secure a favourable verdict. But two members of the jury, Nick Easter (John Cusack) and Marlee (Rachel Weisz) have their own agenda and are not for bending. In `Class Action` (1991), Hackman plays a Civil Liberties lawyer who only fights for the underdogs in order to be on the front cover of `Time` Magazine. His daughter (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) is an up and coming lawyer who opposes her father`s views. Inevitably they face each other in court - a case which Hackman has virtually no chance of winning.

    Starring John Cusack, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Weisz, Gene Hackman, Bruce Davison, Bruce McGill, Jeremy Piven, Nick Searcy, Stanley Anderson, Cliff Curtis, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Colin Friels, Joanna Merlin, Laurence Fishburne, Donald Moffat, Jan Rubes, Matt Clark, Jonathan Silverman

     Contributors John Grisham, Brian Koppelman, Ted Field, Scott Kroopf, Robert W. Cort, Carolyn Shelby, Christopher Ames, Samantha Shad, James Horner