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A Time To Kill (1996)
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You wouldn't know it by watching the Batman movies they collaborated on, but this smart adaptation of John Grisham's novel proves that director Joel Schumacher and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman have some talent when the right project comes along. Schumacher had previously directed Grisham's The Client, and brought equal craft and intelligence to this story about a young Southern attorney (Matthew McConaughey, in his breakthrough role) who defends a black father (Samuel L. Jackson) after he kills two men who raped his young daughter. Sandra Bullock plays the passionate law student who serves as McConaughey's legal aide and voice...
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| A Time To Kill Movie Review by Jarrod (9/8/2007) |
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'A Time to Kill' is a powerful film about racial tensions in the south, and perhaps America more broadly, and it is also a fine legal drama, based on a John Grisham novel. Samuel L Jackson is Carl Lee Hailey, who kills the two repulsive rednecks who brutally rape his daughter, before they go to trial. He ends up in jail,...
(complete A Time To Kill review by Jarrod)
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