The Client - review

When 11 year old Mark Sway and his younger brother Ricky witness a lawyer trying to take his own life whilst hiding out in the woods, Mark does all he can to help him, but when he’s pulled into the car Romey confesses to knowing the whereabouts of a body and threatens to kill him at the same time as himself.

With Mark locked in the car Ricky is too scared to move, but Mark manages to escape the clutches of Romey and leads Ricky to safety, but not before Romey commits suicide in front of them.

Back home in the trailer they share with their mum, Ricky is traumatised by what he saw and is diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder before being taken into hospital.

As Mark tells the police about the death, he leaves out the part of him being in the car and what he was told about a body. But with Romey’s links with the mafia and Roy Foltrigg, a hot shot lawyer (Tommy Lee Jones) determined to crack the case and find the body; Mark decides to arms himself with a lawyer – Reggie Love (Susan Sarandon) – to protect himself and his family when he learns that Foltrigg plans to use him in his bid to bring down the mafia.

Based on the novel of John Grisham, The Client was a tense thriller which had me gripped. 

Introducing the late Brad Renfro in his debut movie, this is one to watch.