A Time to Kill (1996)

Better than The Client, not as good as The Firm.

Now streaming on Amazon Prime

Samuel L. Jackson should've been nominated for Best Actor at the Oscars by that performance.

Probably his best performance

It IS A Time to Kill!

It's a good film

Perfectly cast.

The film does a great job of painting a small town in the south

I'm sure I've seen it but doesn't stand out in my mind. Bullock's best in my opinion are Murder By Numbers and Gravity.

What's there to discuss about it?

R10 how it compares to the books, does it uphold today, performances, the script, etc.

The line "now imagine she is white" at the closing arguments is so powerful. Damn.

A time to SWEAT.

Before Ashley Judd went NUTS!!!

I've never seen it, but I want to see it just to check out Matthew McConaughey. I've read more than once over the years from various sources that no man in the history of cinema has ever been as lovingly photographed and exquisitely lit as he is in this movie. Sounds like Joel Schumacher may have been enamored with young Matthew. Is this a widely held opinion? Did any of you notice that he looked especially gorgeous in this one?

Didn’t they give Best Supporting that year to the little girl who got hit in the head with canned goods?

^ I have an entire list of people I'd like to throw canned goods at.

R15 he is looking hot as fuck in this movie

McConaughey‘s accent was bananas. He turned the name “Roark” into at least four syllables.

Brenda Fricker, meanwhile, I’d watch read the phone book.

Tender baby Hannah. Most of us laughed out loud in the theater when he was in a muscle tee, crying in the remains of his burned out home.

McBongos was pretty but a hammy actor.

R19 Matt is from deep East Texas, they have the same accent as Mississippi. So yes, Roark is a four or even five syllable word.

Yes r15, I noticed that. I thought he was just young because it was one of his first films but yes, gorgeously filmed. There was a golden light over everything.

Sandra Bullock’s role was pretty small for her billing.

There were some great line deliveries. I always loved Samuel L Jackson’s climactic “Yes they deserved to die and I hope they rot in hell!”

If this had been at all realistic Carl Lee would not have been acquitted. In the remake, Attorney General Pam Bondi (played by Uma Thurman) intervenes at this point and insists Carl Lee be executed.

r21, Matty is from Uvalde, Texas, which is in deep west Texas. He did go to high school in Longview, which is in west Texas. So I guess we are both right.

This was the first R-rated movie I saw in a theater.

I swear Ive seen every Grisham movie on cable but can never remember any of them

R24 Longview is in East Texas, close to Tyler. Between Dallas and Shreveport.

Patrick McGoohan, of The Prisoner, played the evocatively-named Judge Omar Noose.

Both Kiefer and Donald Sutherland were in A Time to Kill. In The Bedford Incident (1965) "if you keep your eyes peeled you might spot a fleeting glimpse of Donald Sutherland as part of the medical crew." Also in The Bedford Incident is Eric Porter as a German former U-boat commander.

r21, uvalde ain’t "deep" anything in texas.

it's mid-texas.

almost south-texas.

not even a border county

McConaughey has never looked better than in this movie. Schumacher and his director of photography made love to that visage