A Time to Kill R
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DVD Features:
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: November 3, 2009
- Originally Released: 1996
- Label: Warner Home Video
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Note: Production notes
- Theatrical trailer
- Aspect Ratio: Widescreen
- Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French
- Subtitles - English, French, Spanish
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Matthew McConaughey & Samuel L. Jackson | |
| Performer: | Kevin Spacey, Sandra Bullock, Charles S. Dutton, Ashley Judd, Oliver Platt, Brenda Fricker, Donald Sutherland, Kiefer Sutherland & M. Emmet Walsh | |
| Directed by | Joel Schumacher | |
| Story by | John Grisham |
Entertainment Reviews:
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A likable -- maybe even lovable -- movie.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
Legal drama candidly tackles race relations in America.
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Common Sense Media
Justice may be blind, but rarely have courtroom dramas presumed quite so heavily on cultural myopia as this heinous version of John Grisham's first novel.
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Time Out
(Grisham) films are... grossly over-inflated examples of that old genre which hardly ever need change, the courtroom drama. A Time To Kill is no different, except that its verdict would be laughed out of any court anywhere in the civilised world.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
If the film doesn't add up to a cogent legal argument, neither does it have trouble delivering 2 hours and 20 minutes' worth of sturdy, highly charged drama.
New York Times
With Joel Schumacher's tasteful but second-rate-Sidney-Lumet direction and Akiva Goldsman's nuts-and-bolts script, these boys have created a surprisingly stirring indictment of racism.
Entertainment Asylum
Rating: 2/5 --
Looks aren't enough. In the lead, McConaughey isn't there.
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Product Description:
In a small southern town in the 1960s, a black man awaits trial for murdering the two rednecks who viciously raped his 10-year-old daughter. A young, idealistic white lawyer takes up the father's defense, and the incendiary case becomes a firestorm of racism and controversy, ripping the town apart. Based on John Grisham's bestselling first novel.
Plot Synopsis:
This adaptation of John Grisham's bestseller takes place in the small town of Canton, Mississippi, where two White rednecks kidnap, rape and savagely beat a young Black girl. The men are caught, but the child's deeply enraged father, Carl Lee Hailey, takes justice into his own hands by killing the thugs himself at the courthouse.
Now Carl Lee Hailey is the one on trial, a highly controversial and fiery proceeding that begets numerous racial issues and incidents, some involving the Ku Klux Klan and the NAACP. At the center of this storm is White lawyer Jake Brigance, who not only faces an all-White jury, but personal attacks on his life should he win the case. Brigance, Hailey and Ellen Roark, a rich law student aiding Jake, face a tough road ahead of them, one that will change their lives forever.
Now Carl Lee Hailey is the one on trial, a highly controversial and fiery proceeding that begets numerous racial issues and incidents, some involving the Ku Klux Klan and the NAACP. At the center of this storm is White lawyer Jake Brigance, who not only faces an all-White jury, but personal attacks on his life should he win the case. Brigance, Hailey and Ellen Roark, a rich law student aiding Jake, face a tough road ahead of them, one that will change their lives forever.
Keywords:
Law / Lawyers
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Race Relations
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Vengeance
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Rape
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Murder
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Social Issues
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Recommended
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Theatrical Release
Production Notes:
- Released theatrically in the USA July 24, 1996.
- Co-produced by Monarchy Enterprises B.V.
- Color by Technicolor; in Panavision Widescreen and SDDS (Sony Dynamic Digital Sound).
- Additional cast: Doug Hutchison (Pete Willard); Byron Jennings (Brent Musgrove) and Tonea Stewart (Gwen Hailey).
- Additional credits: Richard Toyon (art direction); Keith P. Cunningham and Maya Shimoguchi (set design).
- Filmed on location in Mississippi.
- Rated BBFC 15 by the British Board of Film Classification.
- Copyright 1996 Warner Bros., Monarchy Enterprises B.V. and Regency Entertainment (USA), Inc.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 15,400
- UPC: 883929090945
- Shipping Weight: 0.12/lbs (approx)
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