The Chamber

Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.

Cast

Chris O'Donnell

as Adam Hall

Gene Hackman

as Sam Cayhall

Faye Dunaway

as Lee Cayhall Bowen

Robert Prosky

as E. Garner Goodman

Lela Rochon

as Nora Stark

Bo Jackson

as Sgt. Clyde Packer

Millie Perkins

as Ruth Kramer

David Marshall Grant

as Gov. David McAllister

Raymond J. Barry

as Rollie Wedge

Nicholas Pryor

as Judge Flynn F. Slattery

Reviews

John Chard

If you spend half as much time trying to be a lawyer instead of trying to be Dick Tracy, I might not be dead in five days. The Chamber is directed by James Foley and adapted to screenplay by William Goldman and Phil Alden Robinson from the John Grisham novel of the same name. It stars Gene Hackma...

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