A Time to Kill (1996)
78 %
Reviews Counted: 36 Fresh: 28 Rotten:8 Average Rating: 6.5/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 30 mins
Synopsis:
This adaptation of John Grisham's bestseller takes place in the small town of Canton, Mississippi, where two White rednecks kidnap, rape and savagely beat a young Black girl. The men are caught, but the child's deeply enraged father, Carl Lee Hailey, takes justice into his own hands by... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, Sandra Bullock, Charles S. Dutton
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With Joel Schumacher's tasteful but second-rate-Sidney-Lumet direction and Akiva Goldsman's nuts-and-bolts script, these boys have created a surprisingly stirring indictment of racism.
08/13/06 12:52 PM
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04/09/05 03:26 AM
McConaughey nails with such laconic grace that some critics are comparing him to the young Paul Newman and to Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird.
06/23/04 10:33 AM
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05/20/03 05:05 PM
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Gripping suspense in this southern set drama. Sandra Bullock is oddly matched to McConaughey who lights the fire. Unfortunately, Samuel L. Jackson waits in the wings.
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