Stars: Al Pacino, Keanu Reeves, Jeffrey Jones, Judith Ivey, Laura Harrington, Craig T. Nelson, Delroy Lindo, Vyto Ruginis, Connie Nielsen, Debra Monk, Heather Matarazzo, Charlize Theron, Chris Bauer, Al D'Amato, Pamela Gray, Don King, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Tamara Tunie

Director: Taylor Hackford

Summary: A lawyer who has never lost a case and has almost a perfect life receives a job offer too good to be true...

Promising young lawyer Kevin Lomax (Keanu Reeves) has never lost a case--even when his client is guilty. When Kevin is seduced away from his sleepy hometown in Florida to work for a flashy, charming lawyer (Al Pacino, in a role he seems born to play), his mother (Judith Ivey) has reservations. But as he works his way up the corporate ladder, Kevin manages to put them aside, along with his wife's (Charlize Theron) needs and the stirrings of his conscience over knowingly defending the guilty. However, his vanity won't let him start losing now. As Kevin's career skyrockets, his neglected wife Mary Ann begins to see evil, violent visions. Hoping a visit from his mother will help, instead Kevin finds himself confronted with a secret his mother has never told him. As Mary Ann seemingly descends into madness, Kevin begins to suspect his boss may be much more than he seems, and he finds himself faced with a choice between saving his own life and saving his soul. Thought-provoking, inventive, and entertaining, director Taylor Hackford's film is reminiscent of psychological horror films like ROSEMARY'S BABY. Andrzej Bartkowiak's lush, innovative cinematography complements the smart script and dead-on acting.

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Too old for Hamlet and too young for Lear--what's an ambitious actor to do? Play the Devil, of course. Jack Nicholson did it in The Witches of Eastwick; Robert De Niro did it in Angel Heart(as Louis Cyphre--get it?). In The Devil's AdvocateAl Pacino takes his turn as the great Satan, and clearly relishes his chance to raise hell. He's a New York lawyer, of course, by the name of John Milton, who recruits a hotshot young Florida attorney (Keanu Reeves) to his firm and seduces him with tempting offers of power, sex and money. Think of the story as a twist on John Grisham's The Firm, with the corporate evil made even more explicit. Reeves is wooden, and therefore doesn't seem to have much of a soul to lose, but he's really just our excuse to meet the devil. Pacino's the main attraction, gleefully showing off his--and the Antichrist's--chops at perpetrating menace and mayhem. --Jim Emerson

Aspect Ratio:	2.33 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Interactive Menus, Production Notes, Scene Access, TV Spots, Audio Commentary
Subtitles:	Arabic, Dutch, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Year:	1997
Release Date:	January 25, 1999
Runtime:	138 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	D 016172
Keywords:	General, Wide, Screen, Advocate, Drama, Thriller, Closed Captioned, Devil's
Genre:	Thriller