The Client
Released in 1993, The Client was yet another great Grisham read. It detailed the accouint of Mark Sway, an eleven-year-old unlucky enough to stumble onto the drunken suicide of a mob lawyer. Darn it to heck, the soon-to-be-ex-lawyer even tells the kid about a murdered senator and where he was entombed.
As far as secrets go, such mob-caused ones are best left unkown.
But Mark knows, and it's just a matter of time before crooked cops get word to the mob that the kid was in the car with the lawyer. Thus begins the hunt.
The scared-you-know-whatless Mark stumbles into the office of Reggie Love, lawyer with issues of her own.
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Well, the two strike positive chords with each other, and they manage to outwit the mob and their despicable lawyers and skate away happily into the sunset.
The differences:
The storylines pretty well coincided. Just more details in the book, as you would expect.
Why it was a tie:
The actors rocked. Susan Sarandon was the perfect choice as Reggie. And Tommy Lee Jones is always going to be the perfect character with slightly (or obviously) shady baggage. And Brad Renfro was very effective as the frightened yet courageous Mark. I wonder why his career seems to have fizzled.
So read the book for the detailed story, but watch the movie for the true fleshing out of the characters.