Ever since 1989, John Grisham has been a favorite American novelist. Focusing regularly on legal fiction, his books have sold over 250 million copies worldwide. At the time of this writing, he has written 17 legal fiction books with a further probable for November 2009, 4 non-legal fiction books and one non-fiction book. There have been 10 films made from his writings, with 1 in the works.
His second tale, “The Firm”, was the first book to be completed into a picture 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 shady Memphis law firm. In that same year of 1993, a second John Grisham story to movie came out, “The Pelican Brief” starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington.
“The Client” came out in 1994. This movie follows an eleven year old boy who by mistake witnesses a suicide and finds himself being chased by the mafia for what they think he may have learned from the dying man. Starring Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones and the late Brad Renfro.
The very first published and the one that many deem to be Grisham’s top book to date is “A Time to Kill”. This storyline was made into a film in 1996. The film introduced a new and forthcoming actor in the lead role, Matthew McConaughey, also starring Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Spacey. An added picture from 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 powerful insurance company on behalf of a boy turned down for medical treatment. In 1998, “The Gingerbread Man” starring Kenneth Branagh and Robert Downey, Jr. came out. This is the only Grisham motion picture that you will not be able to find as a book because it came from an non published manuscript.
Two of Grisham’s non-legal fiction books have been made into movies, “A Painted House” in 2003 and “Christmas with the Kranks”, starring Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis, which is based upon the book “Skipping Christmas”.
“The Runaway Jury” starring Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman, John Cusack and Rachel Weisz was released in 2003. The next show is planned for release in the year 2012. It is “The Associate”, which was released as a novel in January 2009.
With 22 books and another anticipated in November 2009, 10 movies and another expected in 2012, John Grisham has been one of the most creative and popular writers in current times. You can now download the any of the movies that you forgotten and watch right from your computer or Television set.
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