He seeks the death penalty, and presiding Judge Omar Noose denies Brigance a change of venue to a more ethnically diverse county, meaning that Carl Lee will have an all-White jury. Carl Lee is arrested and Brigance agrees to defend him.Īs the rape and subsequent revenge killing gain national media attention, district attorney Rufus Buckley decides to take the case in hopes of furthering his political career. Carl Lee goes to the county courthouse and opens fire with an automatic rifle, killing both rapists and unintentionally wounding Deputy Dwayne Looney, whose leg is later amputated. Brigance admits the possibility that the rapists will walk free. Tonya's father, Carl Lee Hailey, contacts Jake Brigance, a white lawyer who previously defended his brother Lester. Tonya survives, and the two men are arrested by Sheriff Ozzie Walls. The duo dump her in a nearby river after a failed attempt to hang her. In Canton, Mississippi, ten-year-old African American girl Tonya Hailey is abducted, raped, and beaten by two local white men, Billy Ray Cobb and James Willard, while on her way home getting groceries. It is the second of two films based on Grisham's novels directed by Joel Schumacher, with the other being The Client released two years prior. The film received mixed to positive reviews and was a commercial success, making $152 million at the worldwide box office. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey, and Kevin Spacey star with Donald and Kiefer Sutherland appearing in supporting roles. It is based on John Grisham's 1989 novel of the same name. Audiences expecting more Bullock or more weighty import from A Time to Kill will have to adjust expectations and settle for the kick of a good yarn.A Time to Kill is a 1996 American legal drama film. She’s top-billed in the film, yet she’s saddled with a supporting role as a Boston law student, a babe genius who assists Jake with the case and pays a tall price for messing with Southern politics and Jake’s marriage.
The oddest turn comes from adorable Sandra Bullock. Oliver Platt, as Jake’s cynical lawyer crony, is obvious but welcome comic relief. Neither does the gifted Ashley Judd as Jake’s sexy but strident wife (“They’re burnin’ crosses on our lawn!”). Kiefer Sutherland, Donald’s son, doesn’t fare as well as a stereotyped racist. Emmet Walsh as a boozy shrink and Donald Sutherland as a boozy, disbarred lawyer. He draws prime performances from a rich cast, notably Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey as a treacherous prosecutor, Brenda Fricker as Jake’s cheeky secretary, Patrick McGoohan as a hanging judge named Noose, Charles Dutton as a football hero-turned-sheriff, M. In fact, A Time to Kill is at its most compelling and entertaining when Schumacher lets it rip in the old potboiler tradition. Kimberly Perry on The Band Perry's Breakup: 'Did We Leave or Were We Kicked Out?' In A Time to Kill, way long at 148 minutes, they cram in too much, including Grisham’s polemics about racism, the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan and the moral dilemma of the death penalty. Schumacher and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman adroitly pared down The Client to its emotional core. Still, there should have been limits to pleasing Grisham. McConaughey, 26, is dynamite in a performance of smarts, sexiness, scrappy humor and unmistakable star sizzle. Grisham rejected the usual star suspects (Brad Pitt, Val Kilmer, Woody Harrelson) but sparked when director Joel Schumacher brought him Matthew McConaughey, a Texas greenhorn best known as Drew Barrymore’s cop loverman in Boys on the Side. Grisham felt close to Jake since he, too, was a young Mississippi lawyer before quitting to write such best sellers-turned-movie blockbusters as The Pelican Brief and The Client.
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Jackson), on trial for killing the two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter. He withheld selling the film rights (for a very impressive $6 million) until he had a say in who would play Jake Brigance, the young Mississippi lawyer defending a black father, Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L. No one takes the film of John Grisham’s 1989 novel, his first and most personal, more seriously than Grisham.
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