A Time To Kill (DVD)

...on the 1996 feature film a time to Kill, adapted from John Grisham's 1989 novel of the same name. Ill be honest like most people I actually didn't no the film was based on a book, however after watching the film I kind of felt obliged to read the book to see if it was any better than the film. I must applaud the book and the film because they both do justice to one another, they took such a relevant and strong topic and made their viewers and readers ...
... Now ive said a dozen times I have many films that I really consider to be in my list of all time greats and this one really should be included. It's a film that makes you think and act, its not action and its certainly not comedy, but if you really want a perspective of what Mississippi was like during the racial times, then this film does do some justice. We have several scenes which are brutal to say the least, the opening segment just gives you ...

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...Tonya Hailey ♦♦♦ A BRIEF SUMMARY ♦♦♦ "America is a wall and you are on the other side" A little girl named Tonya Hailey has finished running errands for her family and is walking home happily until two local rednecks appear and kidnap her. They rape and abuse her and leave her for dead. Everyone knows who the culprits were, in the town they live in everyone knows everyone else's business. But it seems that they ...
...Knowing there is a good chance these men won't be punished by a court of law, Tonya's devastated father Carl Lee decides to take the law into his own hands and shoots both of them in the courthouse. Now it's up to attorney Jake Brigance to save Carl's skin and get him off the double murder charge he is facing. However, the racial hatred in the town is building up and the Ku Klux Klan has crawled out of the woodwork, putting Brigance's friends and ...

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...thought this would perhaps be a poignant time to finally get around to reviewing this movie, that I saw a week or so ago. I'm hopeful that whats happened today shows how far things have changed and its good to have such movies to act as historical reminders of the way things used to be... Also I will try to re-rate where possible and as soon as I can but I am a little busy soon after posting this. You can just read this and comment if you feel you'd ...
...- Plot - A Time To Kill (another movie based on a John Grisham novel) is set in the deep south, in Mississippi in, I believe, the 1980s (I cant find any concrete info. on what year it was set and dont remember it saying that at the start of the movie but the story was written in 1989), at a time when you may hope that racism was coming to an end but clearly it wasn't, as two white, brutish racist basically thugs decide to assault (raping and attempting ...

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...McConaughey plays the part of a lawyer trying build up a practice left to him by Donald Sutherland, whom he later relies on for some guidance, however, the closing summary Matthew gives in the court room, if you have followed the film as intently as this deserves, then I will be surprised if you have dry eyes.... Male or female.... Samual is simply fantastic, and to be fare, looking back, why would you think of casting anyone else??? Sandra Bullock, ...
...unscaved... This is a very powerful film with a view as to how life was during the peak of racism and shows that the colour of your skin does not necessarily determine how you will think, although you may think you know how you do! Like other films of this nature, I think this will certainly make you stop and think about how you look at life... When you consider this against the likes of Mississippi Burning and more recently, Remeber The Titans, ...

Pugz1 24.07.2006 (27.07.2006) · Read full review
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...someone of being guilty of a crime is an easy thing to do then you have to watch this film!!! Before i start this i have to let you all know i'm a MASSIVE Samuel L Jackson fan! Samuel L Jackson plays Carl Lee Hailey who's 10 year old daughter gets viciously rapped by two of the towns racist Rednecks. Hailey then takes the law into his own hands and kills the two men which sparks a massive outrage in the town of Mississippi. Ahlf the town want Hailey ...
...outcome if you haven't watched this film then it's a must see!! Well worth the money and another film Samuel L Jackson film to add to the collection. Other actors in the film are Sandra Bullock, Matthew McConaughey, Kevin Spacey, Kiefer Sutherland, Charles S. Dutton and Oliver Platt. ...

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