What is the best John Grisham movie adaptation?

Hollywood bought nearly every Grisham bestseller in the '90s and threw A-list casts at them. A few still play as great legal thrillers, and one swaps the courtroom for Christmas lights.

1. 1
   A Time to Kill

   The 1996 courtroom drama based on Grisham's first novel, with Matthew McConaughey defending a Black father (Samuel L. Jackson) in Mississippi.
   1000pts
2. 2
   The Firm

   Sydney Pollack's 1993 thriller starring Tom Cruise as a young lawyer who discovers his Memphis firm works for the mob.
   763pts
3. 3
   The Client

   Joel Schumacher's 1994 film with Susan Sarandon as a lawyer protecting an 11-year-old boy who knows where a senator's body is buried.
   485pts
4. 4
   The Gingerbread Man

   Robert Altman's 1998 Savannah thriller with Kenneth Branagh, made from an original Grisham story.
   397pts
5. 5
   The Chamber

   A 1996 drama with Chris O'Donnell as a lawyer trying to save his Klansman grandfather (Gene Hackman) from execution.
   291pts
6. 6
   Christmas with the Kranks

   The 2004 holiday comedy with Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis, based on Grisham's novel Skipping Christmas.
   291pts
7. 7
   The Rainmaker

   Francis Ford Coppola's 1997 film with Matt Damon as a rookie lawyer taking on a corrupt insurance company.
   291pts
8. 8
   The Pelican Brief

   Alan J. Pakula's 1993 conspiracy thriller with Julia Roberts as a law student and Denzel Washington as the reporter who helps her.
   0pts
9. 9
   Runaway Jury

   The 2003 legal thriller pitting Gene Hackman's jury consultant against John Cusack and Rachel Weisz in a gun-industry trial.
   0pts

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