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A Time To Kill (1996)

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Released:  Wednesday, July 24, 1996  
Length:  149 minutes
Studio: Warner Bros.
Genre: Drama
Rating: A Time To Kill is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of AmericaUnder 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.

A Time To Kill Synopsis

Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L. Jackson) takes the law into his own hands after the legal system fails to adequately punish the men who brutally raped and beat his daughter, leaving her for dead. Normally, a distraught father could count on some judicial sympathy in those circumstances. Unfortunately, Carl and his daughter are black, and the assailants are white, and all the events take place in the South. Indeed, so inflammatory is the situation, that the local KKK (led by Kiefer Sutherland) becomes popular again. When Hailey chooses novice lawyer Jake Brigance (Matthew McConaughey) to handle his defense, it begins to look like a certainty that Carl will hang, and Jake's career (and perhaps his life) will come to a premature end. Despite the efforts of the NAACP and local black leaders to persuade Carl to choose some of their high-powered legal help, he remains loyal to Jake, who had helped his brother with a legal problem before the story begins. Jake eventually takes this case seriously enough to seek help from his old law-school professor (Donald Sutherland). When death threats force his family to leave town, Jake even accepts the help of pushy young know-it-all lawyer Ellen Roark (Sandra Bullock).

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It's being reported that HBO is developing a series based on the John Grisham novel, A Time For Mercy. The novel is the sequel to his other novel, A Time to Kill, which was also adapted as a film in 1996 and starred Matthew McConaughey.It's also bein... | Full Article

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