A Time to Kill
“Experience a time you'll never forget.”
Director
Joel Schumacher
Screenplay
Akiva Goldsman
Matthew McConaughey's breakout leading role casts him as a small-town Mississippi lawyer who agrees to defend a Black father, played by Samuel L. Jackson, on trial for killing the two white men who raped his young daughter, igniting a firestorm of racial tension and a resurgent Ku Klux Klan presence. Joel Schumacher directs this adaptation of John Grisham's debut novel as a courtroom drama unafraid of its charged Deep South setting, with Sandra Bullock as the law student who joins the defense. A commercial hit, it remains one of the more unflinching Grisham adaptations in its handling of racial violence.
Release
Jul 24, 1996
Budget
$40M
Country
United States of America
Revenue
$152M
Cast
Matthew McConaughey
Jake Brigance
Sandra Bullock
Ellen Roark
Samuel L. Jackson
Carl Lee Hailey
Kevin Spacey
Rufus Buckley
Ashley Judd
Carla Brigance
Donald Sutherland
Lucien Wilbanks
Oliver Platt
Harry Rex Vonner
Charles S. Dutton
Ozzie Walls
Brenda Fricker
Ethel Twitty
Kiefer Sutherland
Freddie Lee Cobb
Tonea Stewart
Gwen Hailey
John Diehl
Tim Nunley
Chris Cooper
Dwayne Looney
Nicky Katt
Billy Ray Cobb
Doug Hutchison
Pete Willard
Kurtwood Smith
Stump Sisson
Tim Parati
Winston
Beth Grant
Cora Mae Cobb
Anthony Heald
Wilbert Rodeheaver
M. Emmet Walsh
Willard Tyrell Bass (uncredited)
Octavia Spencer
Roark's Nurse
Joe Seneca
Reverend Isaiah Street
Alexandra Kyle
Hannah Brigance
Terry Loughlin
Jury Foreman
Andy Stahl
Reluctant Male Juror
Reviews
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