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The Pelican Brief

5-4

Prologue Projects

News Commentary, News, Government

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

For some strange reason, there aren't many thrillers about the Supreme Court. The Pelican Brief remedies this obvious oversight by Hollywood. If you'd like to option 5-4 for film and television, we're all ears.


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5 to 4 is presented by Prologue Projects. Rachel Ward is our producer. Leon Neyfakh and Andrew Parsons provide editorial support. Our production manager is Percia Verlin, and our assistant producer is Arlene Arevalo. Our website was designed by Peter Murphy. Our artwork is by Teddy Blanks at Chips NY, and our theme song is by Spatial Relations.


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0:50.1

Hey everyone, this isn't Leon from Fiasco in Prologue projects.

1:19.7

This week's episode of 5.4, Peter, Rianne and Michael have a holiday treat.

1:27.0

They're talking about a movie.

1:28.6

Released in 1993, the Pelican Brief is one of the few legal films where the supreme

1:32.9

court figures.

1:34.6

In it, Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington evade assassins and a corrupt president to reveal

1:40.1

the truth about the deaths of two Supreme Court justices.

1:43.9

One critic called it a heart-stopping, spine-chilling adrenaline pumping run for your life thriller.

1:49.6

Our critics have some notes.

1:52.2

This is 5.4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.

2:01.4

Welcome to 5.4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have caused our

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