Wissenswertes

The story of the freakish execution that Sam tells Adam, about a condemned prisoner beating his head against a metal pole inside the gas chamber, is a true story. It happened to Mississippian Jimmy Lee Gray in 1983.

In a 2006 BBC TV Culture Show interview, John Grisham stated that this was the adaptation of his work he liked least

Universal paid $7 million for the rights to John Grisham's novel.

Gene Hackman and Faye Dunaway play father and daughter even though in real life, he is only 11 years older than her.

This was the least successful of John Grisham's novels to be adapted theatrically at the box office in 1996 while Die Firma (1993), Die Akte (1993), Der Klient (1994), and Die Jury (1996) all grossed over $100 million domestically. Der Regenmacher (1997) and Das Urteil - Jeder ist käuflich (2003) were both critical and modest box office hits when they were released. Die Firma (1993) is the only one to gross more than $150 million of all of Grisham's films to date.