The Chamber (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The chamber |
| Original title | The Chamber |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1996 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | James Foley |
| script |
William Goldman Chris Reese |
| production |
John Davis Brian Grazer Ron Howard |
| music | Carter Burwell |
| camera | Ian Baker |
| cut | Mark Warner |
| occupation | |
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The Chamber is a 1996 American film directed by James Foley and starring Chris O'Donnell and Gene Hackman . The staging is based on the novel ( thriller ) Die Kammer (English original title: The Chamber ) by the American author John Grisham .
action
Adam Hall, a young aspiring lawyer, is taking on Sam Cayhall's case. This was because of a racially motivated bombing of a Jewish were firm in which two children died and their father was seriously injured, sentenced to death and waiting in the high security wing of the state prison of Mississippi on its execution in the gas chamber .
Adam Hall has little time to save the man who is much more to him than a client, namely his grandfather. Adam Hall is not a racist and he has a hard time finding any connection with his grandfather. Since the anti-Semite Cayhall, a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the third generation, despises his grandson and therefore refuses any help, Hall's defense is made almost impossible. Cayhall was only an accomplice in the attack and had no intention of harming people, but refuses to reveal his accomplices.
The first lawyer to represent him in this matter was able to avoid conviction by delaying the trial and selecting white jury members who were potentially well-disposed towards the accused . Cayhall was convicted only in the third trial, pursued by prosecutor David McAllister, who was addicted to profile. After all appointments were rejected, Cayhall is now an old man. The then prosecutor, McAllister, made it to governor at this time and is therefore the one who could grant a pardon .
While Adam Hall makes desperate legal attempts to avert the execution, he must grapple with his family history. Hall manages to find out who the real bomber was. Shortly before the execution, he was able to obtain the opening of the documents that were under lock and key, which incriminated Rollie Wedge as the main culprit, who had been covered by Sam for years. Nevertheless, Sam is executed, while Wedge is arrested almost simultaneously.
criticism
Lexicon of international film : a film adaptation of a novel that seeks justice and humanity even in the guilt and complicity of the perpetrator, but increasingly takes refuge in implausible psychological and only hinted at social explanations. Sedate in the staging, flat in the figure drawing.
John Grisham called the film a "disaster" and "failed from the start", Gene Hackman alone is good.
Awards
Faye Dunaway was nominated for the 1997 Golden Raspberry in the category Worst Supporting Actress .
publication
The chamber had its US premiere on October 11, 1996. In the Federal Republic of Germany , the film opened in cinemas on June 5, 1997 and was released on video on December 29, 1997 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Chamber in the Lexicon of International Films
- ^ "Grisham v. Grisham: John Grisham issues judgment on ALL his novels," Tina Jordan, Entertainment Weekly , Feb. 13, 2004
- ↑ Entry on reelviews.net
Web links
- The chamber in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The chamber in the online film database
- The chamber at rotten tomatoes (English)