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Le jeune Mark Sway est témoin du suicide d'un avocat véreux qui se confesse à lui avant de mourir. Mark est alors à la fois courtisé par la police et traqué par les mafiosi. Il refuse de parler mais, conscient du danger qu'il court, il se décide cependant à engager une avocate, Reggie Love, qui accepte de le défendre pour un dollar symbolique.

Susan Sarandon should stick with the tough minded lawyer more often. Perfectly cast in the role of Reggie Love, she brings a certain charm to a role which could have lacked in that department. And to make matters even tougher on her, she was almost outshined by Brad Renfro, who made quite an impression in a film such as this. While the film was put together in a rather conventional way, with Tommy Lee Jones playing an over clichéd character, the film is still rather gripping. A decent film to have in your collection, and one of the better John Grisham book-turned-movie adaptations.