塘鹅暗杀令

两名高等法院的法官遭杀手谋杀，法学院高材生达比（朱莉娅•罗伯茨 Julia Roberts 饰）随后开始调查此案，起草一份该案的报告，名为《塘鹅报告》。达比找到了记者格兰（丹泽尔•华盛顿 Denzel Washington 饰），因为他是最后一名见到其中一名法官的人，希望能得到他的帮助调查此案。一天格兰接到了一个神秘人来电，此人自称知道谁是该案凶手，格兰跟踪到了此人，可惜未能拦下他。 　　此时，总统暗中命令相关人士不要插手此案。格兰由此起疑，随后调查到了总统和马氏集团关系密切，而且一切证据都表明，马氏与两位法官的死有着千丝万缕的关系！Two Supreme Court Justices have been killed. Now a college professor, who clerked for one of the two men, who's also having an affair with one of his students, is given a brief by her, that states who probably, wanted to see these two men dead. He then gives it to one of his friends, who works for the FBI. When the FBI director reads it, he is fascinated by it. One of the president's men who read it, is afraid that if it ever got out, the president could be smeared. So, he advises the president to tell the director to drop it, which he does. But later the professor and the girl were out and he was drunk and when he refused to give her the keys she stepped out of the car. When he started it, it blew up. She then discovers that her place has been burglarized and what was taken were her computer and her disks. Obviously, her brief has someone agitated. She then turns to her boyfriend's friend at the FBI, he agrees to come meet her but before he does someone shoots him and takes his place. At the meeting, he was about to kill her when someone shoots him. She then decides to turn to Gray Grantham, an investigative reporter, who was contacted by someone who says he has info on the killings but backed out at the last minute. He then meets her and tells her what her brief is, and basically, the man she suspects is a good friend of the president, who is trying to manipulate the outcome of a trial that is now before the Supreme Court. Grantham tells her that her brief can harm the president and all what they have are theories, he asks her to help him but she wants to leave the country. Then Grantham's editor tells him that they have nothing; that he should drop cause the man she implicated is extremely powerful. Grantham's about to drop it when she says that she will help him. But can they stay alive?