# Runaway Jury

Runaway Jury is 2003 film about a couple who sell the jury's verdict of a high-profile case to the highest bidder.
    Directed by Gary Fleder. Written by Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Rick Cleveland, and Matthew Chapman, based on the novel written by John Grisham.

## Rankin Fitch

* Gentlemen, trials are too important to be left up to juries.
* You think your average juror is King Solomon? No! He's a roofer with a mortgage. He wants to go home and sit in his Barcalounger and let the cable TV wash over him. And this man doesn't give a single, solitary droplet of shit about truth, justice or your American way.
* Everybody has a secret they don't want you to find. Find it!
* We like fat women, people!
* Ah, I hate Baptists almost as much as I hate Democrats.
* You may be right, but the thing of it is, I don't give a shit. What's more... I never have.
* Ladies and Gentlemen, this girl is an amateur. Do you understand? A dilettante. And I want this nonsense ended today! I want you to find her. I want you to contain her! Because you're losing me my jury!
* What do you hope to achieve if you win? You gonna bring Jacob Wood back to life? No. You just ensure that his wife goes to the cemetery in a better car, and that the heel that she snaps on the way to the graveside belongs to a $1,200 shoe. You get your name in the paper. But Jacob Wood and all the other gun violence victims remain rotting in their crypts.

## Other

* Nicholas Easter: [after anti-gun fanatic is dragged kicking and screaming from the courtroom during jury selection, even though he claims he want to be heard] Well, I guess that's lunch...
* Henry Jankle: ...I was under the impression that we'd already purchased ourselves a verdict.
* Wendell Rohr: Gentlemen, I have lost my footing in this trial.
* Judge Harkin: I'm not sure, but I believe I'm buying lunch.
* Doyle: It's a set-up. Don't do it!

## Dialogue

    Frank Herrera: [On nominating Herman for foreman] But...
    Eddie Weese: But he's blind, man. So what? So is justice, right?
    Nicholas Easter: [talking about a dead friend] Listen, I dunno if it would be inappropriate, but do you think we could do something today to remember him?
    Rikki Coleman: We could say the Lord's Prayer.
    Nicholas Easter: Well, I don't want to ask people to pray...
    Millie Dupree: How about "God Bless America"?
    Nicholas Easter: [with more conviction] Oh, I couldn't ask people to sing.
    Nicholas Easter: Goodbye, Fitch.
    Rankin Fitch: Well, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait... How did you swing 'em, huh? How did you swing 'em your way? I hear you got ten votes. How'd you do that?
    Nicholas Easter: [shrugs] I didn't swing anything. I just stopped you from stealing the thing. We let 'em vote their hearts. That means you lose. Enjoy your drink.

## Cast

* John Cusack - Nicholas "Nick" Easter
* Gene Hackman - Rankin Fitch
* Dustin Hoffman - Wendell Rohr
* Rachel Weisz - Marlee
* Jeremy Piven - Lawrence Greene
* Bruce Davison - Durwood Cable
* Bruce McGill - Judge Frederick Harkin
* Marguerite Moreau - Amanda Monroe
* Nick Searcy - Doyle
* Leland Orser - Lamb
* Gerry Bamman - Herman Grimes
* Lori Heuring - Maxine
* Nestor Serrano - Janovich
* Joanna Going - Celeste Wood
* Cliff Curtis - Frank Herrera
* Dylan McDermott - Jacob Wood

## External links

* Runaway Jury quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Runaway Jury at Rotten Tomatoes
* The official Runaway Jury site