Question: The director of a 1996 crime thriller film based on John Grisham's novel of the same name was born in what year?

Context articles: The Chamber (film)
The Confession (novel)
List of The Firm episodes
A Time to Kill (Grisham novel)
The Client (TV series)
James Foley (director)
Camino Island
A Time to Kill (1996 film)
The Firm (novel)
The Runaway Jury

The Chamber is a 1996 crime thriller film based on John Grisham's novel of the same name.
 The film was directed by James Foley and stars Gene Hackman and Chris O'Donnell.
The Confession is a 2010 legal thriller novel by John Grisham, his second novel to be published in 2010 (the previous was "").
 The novel is about the murder of a high school cheerleader and how an innocent man is arrested for it.
 This was Grisham's first novel to be released simultaneously in digital and hardcopy format.
"The Firm" is a legal-drama television series, created by Lukas Reiter for NBC, Global and AXN, that is adapted as a sequel to the 1991 John Grisham novel of the same name and its 1993 film adaptation in the Washington Metropolitan Area.
 The television adaptation is set ten years after the novel and film.
 It is executive produced by John Grisham, John Morayniss, Michael Rosenberg, Noreen Halpern, and Reiter.
 It premiered in Canada and the U.S. as a two-hour special on January 8, 2012 and assumed its regular time slot on January 12, 2012, replacing "Prime Suspect" in the Thursday night lineup of both Global and NBC.
 The series premiered on AXN on February 19, 2012.
A Time to Kill is a 1988 legal thriller by John Grisham.
 It was Grisham's first novel.
 The novel was rejected by many publishers before Wynwood Press eventually gave it a modest 5,000-copy printing.
 When Doubleday published "The Firm", Wynwood released a trade paperback of "A Time to Kill", which became a bestseller.
 Dell published the mass market paperback months after the success of "The Firm", bringing Grisham to widespread popularity among readers.
 Doubleday eventually took over the contract for "A Time to Kill" and released a special hardcover edition.
The Client (also referred to as John Grisham's The Client) is an American television series that was broadcast on CBS.
 It aired for one season, premiering with a two-hour movie pilot on September 17, 1995, and airing new episodes through April 16, 1996.
 The series was based on the 1994 film "The Client", itself adapted from the 1993 John Grisham novel also titled "The Client".
 It starred JoBeth Williams, John Heard, and Polly Holliday in the roles created in the film by Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, and Micole Mercurio, respectively.
James Foley (born December 28, 1953) is an American film director.
 His 1986 film "At Close Range" was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival.
 Other films he has directed include "Glengarry Glen Ross", based on the both Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play of the same name by David Mamet (actor Al Pacino received an Academy Award nomination for his performance in the film), and "The Chamber", based on the novel of the same name by best-selling author John Grisham.
Camino Island is a crime fiction thriller novel written by John Grisham and released on June 6, 2017, by Doubleday.
 The book is a departure from Grisham's main subject of legal thrillers and focuses on stolen rare books.
 Grisham made his first extensive book tour in 25 years to publicize the book.
A Time to Kill is a 1996 American crime drama film based on John Grisham's 1989 novel of the same name, directed by Joel Schumacher.
 Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey, and Kevin Spacey star, with Oliver Platt, Ashley Judd, Kiefer and Donald Sutherland, and Patrick McGoohan appearing in supporting roles.
 Set in Canton, Mississippi, the film involves the rape of a young girl, the arrest of the rapists, their subsequent murder by the girl's father, and the father's trial for murder.
 The film was a critical and commercial success, making $152 million at the worldwide box office.
The Firm is a 1991 legal thriller by American writer John Grisham.
 His second book, it was his first widely recognized book; in 1993, after selling 1.5 million copies, it was made into a film starring Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman.
 Grisham's first novel, "A Time to Kill", came into recognition afterwards due to this novel's success.
The Runaway Jury is a legal thriller novel written by American author John Grisham.
 It was Grisham's seventh novel.
 The hardcover first edition was published by Doubleday Books in 1996 (ISBN  ).
 Pearson Longman released the graded reader edition in 2001 (ISBN  ).
 The novel was published again in 2003 to coincide with the release of "Runaway Jury", a movie adaptation of the novel starring Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, John Cusack and Rachel Weisz.
 The third printing (ISBN  ) bears a movie-themed cover, in place of the covers used on the first and second printings.