We got up today and just chilled out.
Anyone that knows me, knows I do not sit at home and watch movies. Just has never been
my thing. To many other things I can be doing than lying on the couch for 2 hours watching a movie. I like the 30 minute comedy instead. Well, while I was fixing us something to eat today, Don started watching a movie. OMG!! I got interested in it and it was GREAT.
It was called
A Time to Kill.
An outstanding cast.
It is
R, 2 hr. 29 min.
MOVIE INFO
R, 2 hr. 29 min.
Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L. Jackson) takes the law into his own hands after the legal system fails to adequately punish the men who brutally raped and beat his daughter, leaving her for dead. Normally, a distraught father could count on some judicial sympathy in those circumstances. Unfortunately, Carl and his daughter are black, and the assailants are white, and all the events take place in the South. Indeed, so inflammatory is the situation, that the local KKK (led by Kiefer Sutherland) becomes popular again. When Hailey chooses novice lawyer Jake Brigance (Matthew McConaughey) to handle his defense, it begins to look like a certainty that Carl will hang, and Jake's career (and perhaps his life) will come to a premature end. Despite the efforts of the NAACP and local black leaders to persuade Carl to choose some of their high-powered legal help, he remains loyal to Jake, who had helped his brother with a legal problem before the story begins. Jake eventually takes this case seriously enough to seek help from his old law-school professor (Donald Sutherland). When death threats force his family to leave town, Jake even accepts the help of pushy young know-it-all lawyer Ellen Roark (Sandra Bullock). ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
A Time to Kill is a 1996 film adaptation of John Grisham's 1989 legal thriller novel of the same name. Directed by Joel Schumacher, the film features an ensemble cast that includes Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey, Oliver Platt, Ashley Judd, Kiefer Sutherland, Donald Sutherland, Kevin Spacey andPatrick McGoohan.
Set in Canton, Mississippi, the film revolves around the rape of a young girl and the arrest of the rapists and their subsequent murder by the girl's father, Carl Lee Hailey. The remainder of the film then focuses on the trial of Carl Lee Hailey for murder. Upon its theatrical release, A Time to Kill was regarded as a commercial success, taking nearly $110 million at the U.S box office.[2]
This movie was great. It is really sad to think that because one's skin color is different than yours, that people can treat other humans like they do in this movie. I was amazed by the all star cast. Did you notice I gave this not 5 but 6 stars. Reason being, anything that has Matthew McConaughey automatically gets an extra star just for having him in it. It is based on a true story about a little 10 year old girl being raped, beaten, hung, then tossed into a creek 30 feet down, by a couple of white men. I think her father was in his right to do what he did. I would have found him not guilty if I had been sitting on that jury. If you haven't seen this one, it's well worth spending time on the couch watching this. Not to many movies would I say that about.
Lenetta
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