A Time to Kill (1996)
A Time to Kill (1996)
DVD9 Double-sided | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | 02:29:38 | 7,74 Gb
Audio: English, French AC3 5.1 @ 384 Kbps (each track) | Subs: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller | Nominated for Golden Globe | USA
DVD9 Double-sided | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | 02:29:38 | 7,74 Gb
Audio: English, French AC3 5.1 @ 384 Kbps (each track) | Subs: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller | Nominated for Golden Globe | USA
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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A Time to Kill (1996)
There is something comforting in the predictability of a John Grisham adaptation. That's not to say the outcome of his films are necessarily predictable; rather, his modus operandi is easily identifiable and endlessly popular. An honest, young but brilliant lawyer stumbles on a case of historic proportions. He undertakes industrious detective work and is helped along the way by an aging mentor before engaging in dramatic courtroom action that climaxes in an impassioned closing statement. Case closed.
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A Time To Kill, directed by Joel Schumacher, is no exception but it's buoyed with admirable performances all round. Samuel L Jackson plays the enraged father (Carl Lee Hailey) of a ten-year-old girl who is the victim of a savage rape at the hands of two local rednecks. When Hailey takes the law into his own hands and shoots the men in cold blood, it falls to liberal lawyer Jack Brigance (Matthew McConaughey) to take on his case and, by extension, the newly formed regional Klan.
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As the story unfolds, the villains are identified and the legal arguments laid out, Schumacher skilfully handles the moral themes of colour and corruption without preaching. McConaughey and Jackson also deserve credit for their convincing delivery of cheesy dialogue. Ably supporting the leads are Sandra Bullock as a feisty law student, Kevin Spacey playing a ruthless district attorney and Donald Sutherland as the aforementioned ageing mentor.
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Like most Grisham films, A Time To Kill has its share of lulls in an epic runtime, most of which lie in the long build-up to the trial. However, once the witnesses take the stand, screenwriter Akiva Goldsman ratchets up the tension and the sweating really begins.
A gritty, intense and engaging courtroom drama.
A Time to Kill (1996)
Special Features:
- Cast and Crew Biographies/Filmographies
- Theatrical Trailer
A Time to Kill (1996)
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