If you loved Klute, try The Pelican Brief

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Klute

1971 · dir. Alan J. Pakula

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Both films are directed by Alan J. Pakula, and they both carry the paranoid, slow burn mood tags, and they sit in Crime / Drama / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to Klute, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What The Pelican Brief is

New Orleans, a cryptic fax, a law journal open on a desk. A young student's theory sparks a deadly chase, a web of corruption unravels. Pakula's direction makes the paranoia feel dangerously real.

If you loved Klute, try The Pelican Brief

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What The Pelican Brief is

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If you loved Klute, try The Pelican Brief

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