Based on the John Grisham bestseller, this suspense-thriller takes place in a New Orleans courtroom, where John Cusack plays a juror in a trial against the gun industry. In the book, it was the tobacco industry. Cusack is involved in a conspiracy with his girlfriend (Rachel Weisz), who offers to sell the verdict to either side for millions. Gene Hackman plays a jury consultant hired by the gun manufacturers to make sure they win the case.