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The Chamber

Year:
Duration:
113 min
Genres:
Drama | Thriller
IMDB rate:
5.9
Director:
James Foley
Awards:
1 nomination
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1996-10-11
Filming Locations: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Earnings
Budget: $50,000,000
Opening Weekend: $5,612,095 (USA) (13 October 1996)
Gross: $14,402,821 (USA) (15 December 1996)
Cast
Actor
Character
Chris O'Donnell
Adam Hall
Gene Hackman
Sam Cayhall
Faye Dunaway
Lee Cayhall Bowen
Robert Prosky
E. Garner Goodman
Raymond J. Barry
Rollie Wedge / Donnie Cayhall (as Raymond Barry)
Bo Jackson
Sgt. Clyde Packer
Lela Rochon
Nora Stark
David Marshall Grant
Gov. David McAllister
Nicholas Pryor
Judge Flynn F. Slattery
Harve Presnell
Atty. Gen. Roxburgh
Richard Bradford
Wyn Lettner
Greg Goossen
J.B. Gullitt (as Gregory Goossen)
Seth Isler
Marvin B. Kramer
Millie Perkins
Ruth Kramer
Sid Johnson
Josh Kramer
Blake Johnson
John Kramer
Josef Sommer
Phelps Bowen
Leonard Vincent
Lucas Mann
Bonita Allen
Baker Cooley
Dick Stilwell
George Nugent
Gloria Jackson Winters
Woman Guard
Greg Wayne Elam
Joe Lincoln (as Greg Elam)
Zaquirii Walters
Quince Lincoln
Thom Gossom Jr.
Bink
Jana Barraza
Gate Attendant
Nick Brett
Rally Skinhead
Craig A. Pinckes
Rally Skinhead (as Craig Pinckes)
Dan Beene
Lead Sheriff
James Geralden
Newscaster
Michelle Davison
Prof. Burns
Jack Conley
White Guard
Stephanie Bell Flynt
Herself - On-Air Newscaster
Ruby Wilson
Jesse, Lee Bowen's Maid
Joe Meek
Senatorial Aide
Anthony Kopcynski
Visitors' Room Guard
Ken Colquitt
Visitors' Room Guard
Neil Barton
Visitors' Room Guard
Gilbert Ivan Johnson
Trustee
Jerry Gauny
Inmate
Ed Siebert
Inmate
Bob Rummler
Inmate (as Bob Rummier)
Disraeli Ellison
Inmate
Rod Phillips
Inmate
Jeff Sanders
Inmate
Richard T. Muñoz
Inmate
Clee Cottel
Inmate
Ian Brady
Deputy Executioner
Sam Bologna
Deputy Executioner
Charles Swain
Observation Cell Guard
Tony Scott Sherron
Governor's Aide (as Tony Scott Sherrom)
Kurtis Epper
Rally Skinhead (as Curtis Epper)
Vince Canlas
Reporter #1 (uncredited)
Clay Cranford
SWAT Team Captain (uncredited)
Stuart Greenwell
Governor's Aide (uncredited)
John Kerry
Death-house guard (uncredited)
Doug Swander
Reporter (uncredited)
Shayne Tingle
Senator's Aid (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
The character of Rollie Wedge was beefed up considerably from the novel with the aim that Jack Nicholson would play him. Things didn't quite go according to plan and the part went to the lesser known actor, Raymond J. Barry, instead.
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Not since Bonnie and Clyde (1967) (29 years earlier) have Gene Hackman and Faye Dunaway co-starred in a feature film.
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William Goldman, who wrote the early drafts, was reportedly unsatisfied with the re-writes and never saw the finished movie
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Goofs
When Lee (Faye Dunaway) shows Adam (Chris O'Donnell) the photo allegedly of her father at a lynching in Mississippi as a boy, it is actually the iconic photograph of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Indiana. The young Sam Cayhill has been edited into the original photograph.
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When Adam is giving his argument, he states "Men rea - to do the deed". "Men rea" is the intent portion of a crime. "Actus reaus" is the act.
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In the scene in which Adam visits the Klan gathering on the night before the execution the same extra (an older man in a baseball cap) can be seen in adjacent shots both behind Adam and the gang of thugs on the opposite side of the room.
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Quotes
Sam Cayhall: If you spend half as much time trying to be a lawyer instead of trying to be Dick Tracy, I might not be dead in five days.
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Lee Bowen: Pretty good for poor white trash. How well I'll be accepted after everybody finds out I'm Hitler's daughter is another thing.
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Nora Stark: You're in Mississippi now - land of the secrets. There are bodies buried everywhere.
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Photos from cast
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