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© DR - LE CLIENT de Joel Schumacher (1994) p5
09/11/2012 04:45
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Titre : Le Client
Titre original : The Client
Réalisation : Joel Schumacher
Scénario : Akiva Goldsman et
Robert Getchell,
d'après le roman de John Grisham
Production : Guy Ferland, Mary McLaglen,
Arnon Milchan et Steven Reuther
Société de production : W.Bros. Pict
Budget : 45 millions de dollars
Musique : Howard Shore
Photographie : Tony Pierce-Roberts
Montage : Robert Brown
Décors : Bruno Rubeo
Costumes : Ingrid Ferrin
Pays d'origine : États-Unis
Format : Couleurs - 2,35:1 -
Dolby Surround - 35 mm
Genre : Drame, thriller
Durée : 119 minutes
Dates de sortie : 20 juillet 1994 (USA),
7 décembre 1994 (France)
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Compelling, engrossing and well acted thriller.
Author: silverzero from Dungarvan, Ireland
17 March 2003
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"The Client" is an enjoyable and well executed thriller overall. While the directing, script and overall product are far from amazing and sometimes quite bland, the Oscar level performances compensate for the easily over-seeable flaws. Perhaps the child of the title, Brad Renfro, can be annoying in parts he gives a decent enough performance nonetheless. Too bad about the drinks and drugs problem he has today.
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Susan Sarandon gives another terrific performance, this time as an EX alcoholic lawyer. Tommy Lee Jones' character doesn't have much to do with the plot but he's a welcome addition to the film, even though. While it is easy to find fault with the film it's easier to just sit back and enjoy it. I chose the latter so I thought it was a good, if not spectacular movie overall. 6.8/10
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© DR - LE CLIENT de Joel Schumacher (1994) p6
09/11/2012 04:53
Cast
Susan Sarandon : Reggie Love
Tommy Lee Jones : Roy Foltrigg
(dit Le révérend car il cite souvent la Bible)
Brad Renfro : Mark Sway
Mary-Louise Parker : Dianne Sway
Anthony LaPaglia : Barry Muldanno
(dit The Blade (La Lame)
J.T. Walsh : Jason McThune
Anthony Edwards : Clint Von Hooser
Will Patton : sergent Hardy
Bradley Whitford : Thomas Fink
Anthony Heald : Larry Trumann
Kim Coates : Paul Gronke
Kimberly Scott : Doreen
David Speck : Ricky Sway
William H. Macy : le docteur Greenway
Ossie Davis : le juge Harry Roosevelt
Walter Olkewicz : Jerome "Romey" Clifford, avocat de la maffia
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Heroism very new/very old
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Mark Sway is a real hero here, although he is not only a mere child, but a disadvantaged child in the middle of adult power structures breathtaking in their deviousness and casual cruelty. The theme of youngsters forced by circumstances into adult roles and responsibilities, particularly in being more level-headed and mature than their parent(s) has become as strikingly common in contemporary literature as it was strikingly uncommon until about a generation ago. But there are ample parallels to real life in pre-Romantic history.
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It is really our modern assumptions of prolonged childhood and adolescence which are abnormal in the fuller perspective of human experience. Aren't we on the verge of these concepts' retreating from the apogees to which western culture pushed them in the 19th and early 20th centuries?If so, this film is on the cusp of the trend. Yet it might never have worked but for the director's good fortune in locating Brad Renfro for the lead role. What a find! His earthy, protean spunk and obliviousness to any cute brown-nosing towards his elders, simply because they are elders, make him entirely convincing in the part.
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He is, I hope, on his way to being a great actor, but perhaps it will continue to be this film which shows his freshness most clearly.Not that it isn't very taut cinema in other regards. The build up of drama in the opening scenes is superb, with acting, cinematography, and the score all combining to provide a seamless experience. As one critic put it, it starts like a house afire, and the fire never goes out. This is a film one can see again and again, noticing additional fine touches each time.
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© DR - LE CLIENT de Joel Schumacher (1994) p7
09/11/2012 04:58
Susan Sarandon,qui n'a jamais été aussi belle,
merveilleuse,éblouissante que dans ce film
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Another Great Grisham Book Turned Into A Movie
Author: goleafs84 from Seattle, Washington
9 February 2004
Back in 1994, I read this book and just like other John Grisham's novels, with the exception of "The Pelican Brief", once I started reading, I couldn't put it down.Director Joel Schumacher and Screenwriter Akiva Goldsman did an excellent job keeping the movie within the storyline without doing a horrible "hatchet job" most do to novels.In addition, there was an excellent flow to the movie. It kept moving along; There wasn't very many slow moments in it and it kept me on the edge of my seat.
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The casting was great as well. I liked Susan Sarandon as Reggie Love, Brad Renfro as Mark Sway, Tommy Lee Jones was a perfect fit as the "Reverend" Roy Foltrigg. Will Patton as Sergent Hardy, was an excellent sleezy and conniving officer.When I saw Anthony LaPaglia as Barry "The Blade" Muldano, I didn't envision the greasy sleezeball he portrayed, but someone more tougher or perhaps more thuggish. But Anthony LaPaglia fit just fine. This is a movie worth renting.
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© DR - LE CLIENT de Joel Schumacher (1994) p8
09/11/2012 05:02
Autour du film
-Le tournage s'est déroulé d'août à octobre 1993 à Clinton, Memphis et La Nouvelle-Orléans.
-Une série télévisée Le Client, spin-off du film, fut créée en 1995.
-Le Client est le premier film de l'acteur Brad Renfro.
Trivia
-The Elvis PEZ dispenser was designed specifically for this movie, by the props department, and has never been made by PEZ.
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-Joel Schumacher proposed "movie marriage" to Susan Sarandon in the middle of a crowded New York City restaurant during the summer of 1993 in order to convince her to do the movie. She agreed to make the film a few days later.
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-At the time of filming, author John Grisham had casting approval over all film adaptations of his work and specified that "no professional child actors in Hollywood" be cast as Mark Sway. He felt that the film wouldn't work with a well-known child actor (sporting a phony accent) in the role and that by casting an unknown in the part (preferably from the Memphis area where the story is set) the film's credibility wouldn't be compromised. Brad Renfro, a native of Knoxville, Tennessee beat out thousands of actors for the role including Macaulay Culkin.
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-At the time of the film,the only prior acting experience Brad Renfro had was a school production about D.A.R.E (Drug and Alcohol Resistance Education). Renfro was arrested and convicted several times for drugs possession prior to his death in 2008.
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-This was Brad Renfro's film debut.
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-Anthony Edwards and William H. Macy both appeared together in Urgences later in 1994. Susan Sarandon would also later make a guest appearance. That series would also prove to be the breakout role for George Clooney, who would work with director Joel Schumacher in Batman & Robin.
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-Polly Holliday appears in archival footage as Mark watches TV in a hospital waiting area. Holliday later played "Momma Love" in the TV series adapted from "The Client."
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© DR - LE CLIENT de Joel Schumacher (1994) p9
09/11/2012 05:04
Bande originale
-Heartbreak Hotel, interprété par Steve Tyrell
-St. Louis Blues, interprété par Preservation Hall Jazz Band of New Orleans
-Bourbon Street Parade, interprété par Jimmy Maxwell and his Orchestra
-She Said, interprété par Tri-Samual Soul Champs
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Such interesting characters come from John Grisham
Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York
19 July 2012
Ironically enough I saw a Perry Mason episode a few days earlier where a young kid around Brad Renfro's age comes to Raymond Burr seeking legal advice and got taken on as a client eventually. I wonder if John Grisham saw the episode and got the germ of an idea for a book.Renfro is a most wanted individual. He saw a lawyer from New Orleans kill himself and before he died he revealed where the missing body of a Louisiana State Senator was. It seems as though organized crime put a hit on him and the discovery of said body will cinch an indictment against Anthony LaPaglia the number one contract killer in the New Orleans mob.
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So US Attorney Tommy Lee Jones wants Renfro. LaPaglia wants to silence him. It's all way too overwhelming for Renfro's mother, some poor white trash woman played by Mary Louise Parker. And too overwhelming for Renfro who finds Susan Sarandon as an attorney who will guard his interests.Susan Sarandon got a Best Actress nomination for this film and on the strength of her scenes as a righteous attorney guarding Renfro's interests and her very tender scenes with Renfro earning his trust which was not easy. Sarandon hits all the right notes and every emotion from her in this film rings true to life.
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Brad Renfro was a complete unknown who was cast in the film because he was a local kid and he does come across as a real kid and very well. Half of Sarandon's nomination should have been credited to him. Sad indeed that he proved to be another young Hollywood tragedy.Down in the cast in a small part that he really makes count is Ossie Davis playing a judge who is trying to sort out everyone's rights in this situation.
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Davis was a great authority figure on the bench.John Grisham novels have such interesting characters they seem to be almost ready made for a screen adaption*The Client is no exception here,you will be engrossed in the story within seconds of starting to watch this film
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*John Grisham est un malin;tous ses livres semblent écrits en vue d'une future adaptation au cinéma
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