When you're talking about the movies of the 90s, you have to mention the

decades huge assortment of thrillers.

Portroom standoff, frantic chases, Twists, and A-list Stars.

We're here to recommend a few of our favorites.

I'm Linda Holmes.

And I'm Stephen Thompson.

Today we are talking about three great 90s thrillers on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.

It's just Linda and me today, Holmesy, I know you love a thriller, you love a courtroom drama,

and the 90s were packed with great ones.

So let's get right into it.

What's your first pick?

Okay, so this whole entire genre to me is so rich that I felt like every one of these picks to pick three had to

represent a larger idea The first one that I picked is the Pelican Brief from 1993. It is directed by

Alan J. Pacula and it is also an adaptation of a John Grisham book and so this stands in for a few things. A there were a bunch of

John Grisham adaptations which make up a lot of the 90s what I think of as the trench coat thriller

the kind of there's always like FBI guys

and other mysterious guys walking around in trench coats.

But also because Denzel Washington

is in many ways the king of the 90s slash aunts tense thriller you know he appeared in

this he appeared in the bone collector he appeared in if you count devil in a blue Dress which is more of a mystery maybe than a thriller but it still counts and into the aughts with things like Inside Man.

He is kind of my ideal thriller dude of this era so I picked the pelican brief for that reason and

also Julia Roberts is one of the sort of not maybe not at quite the level that he is but also somebody who showed up in a bunch of thrillers especially

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