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A Time to Kill
The movie follows a young lawyer as he defends a black man accused of murdering two men who violently raped and beaten then dumped his 10-year-old daughter in a river, sparking a rebirth of Ku Klux Klan and the Civil Rights Movement.
1960
21 December 1966, Paddington, London, England, UK
May1962, Southern Maine, USA
31 August 1961, Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA
3 February 1947, Greenwood, Mississippi, USA
11 October 1948, Chicago, Illinois, USA
19 April 1968, Granada Hills, California, USA
17 February 1945, Dublin, Ireland
4 September 1945, Frierson, Louisiana, USA
19 March 1928, Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
3 July 1943, New Lisbon, Wisconsin, USA
25 May 1970, Montgomery, Alabama, USA
26 July 1959, South Orange, New Jersey, USA
April 01, 2009
Only a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman could make things worse--and lo and behold, speak of the devil and Old Scratch appears.
June 23, 2004
McConaughey nails with such laconic grace that some critics are comparing him to the young Paul Newman and to Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird.
July 04, 2004
Looks aren't enough. In the lead, McConaughey isn't there.
June 14, 2009
What craven offal!
August 13, 2006
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.
May 20, 2003
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.
June 14, 2009
A gritty, intense and engaging courtroom drama.
June 14, 2009
A likable -- maybe even lovable -- movie.
June 18, 2002
Untrained as an actor, with only three minor roles to his credit, McConaughey holds the screen against Samuel L. Jackson, Sandra Bullock and Kevin Spacey, and completely justifies the buzz surrounding his role...
June 06, 2001
McConaughey, 26, is dynamite in a performance of smarts, sexiness, scrappy humor and unmistakable star sizzle.
February 09, 2006
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.
October 08, 2008
Although it has its share of implausibilities, A Time To Kill is generally the most satisfying of the John Grisham screen adaptations to date.
