John Grisham has been one of America’s most favorite authors since 1989. His books have sold over 250 million copies globally. The majority of his books, actually seventeen in all, are legal fiction nevertheless he has authored four non-legal fiction works and one non-fiction book. As of this writing there have been ten films made from his labor with one in the works.
His 2nd story, “The Firm”, was the earliest book to be completed into a show back in 1993. In this show, starring Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Gene Hackman, a youthful Harvard Law School graduate begins working at a rather devious Memphis law firm. In that same year of 1993, a second John Grisham book to movie came out, “The Pelican Brief” starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington.
In 1994, “The Client” was released. In this movie a adolescent boy fortuitously witnesses a suicide and he is consequently chased by the mob for what they think the dying man may have confided in him. “The Client” starred Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones and the late Brad Renfro.
Grisham’s very first novel, and some may say his best novel, was “A Time To Kill”. This story was made into a film in 1996 and it introduced an up and coming new actor in the lead character, Matthew McConaughey. It also starred Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Spacey. Also from the year 1996 was “The Chamber” starring Chris O’Donnell, Gene Hackman and Faye Dunaway.
Matt Damon took the lead role in “The Rainmaker” in 1997. He played a brand new attorney who takes on a influential insurance company on behalf of a boy denied medical treatment. In 1998, “The Gingerbread Man” starring Kenneth Branagh and Robert Downey, Jr. came out. This is the only Grisham show that you will not be able to find as a book because it came from an non published manuscript.
Of the four non-legal fiction books by Grisham, two have been turned into movies, “A Painted House” in 2003 and the holiday favorite, “Christmas with the Kranks” starring Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis and adapted from the story “Skipping Christmas”.
“The Runaway Jury” came out in 2003. This motion picture starred Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, John Cusack and Rachel Weisz. Grisham’s twenty-first book, “The Associate”, just released as a book in January 2009, will be released as a picture in 2012.
Grisham has without doubt been one of the most accepted and fertile writers in the recent past. With 22 stories out and another intended for November 2009, 10 movies and another intended for 2012, he has never failed to entertain us. If you happened to overlook any of these impressive films you can now download them at once to your computer to view right away on your computer, TV or even your iPhone.
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