#CAST A TIME TO KILL MOVIE MOVIE#
Now it has to be said that "A Time to Kill" is a movie with a multi layered storyline no more so than how it starts. And it is a task which is made even harder as the case causes the KKK to rise up and cause trouble as they try to scare Brigance and his assistant Ellen Roark ( Sandra Bullock - The Net) off of defending a black man. Arrested for their murder Hailey turns to white lawyer Jake Brigance ( Matthew McConaughey - Ghosts of Girlfriends Past) to try and get him off, not the easiest task when he killed the men in broad daylight in front of countless witnesses. Jackson - Die Hard: With a Vengeance) takes justice into his own hands and shoots them dead as they are lead through the court building to face trial. When 10 year old Tonya Hailey (Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly) is viciously attacked and raped by two racist rednecks her father Carl Lee Hailey ( Samuel L. And it is compelling from the early scenes of a young coloured girl being attacked by two rednecks through to the tension of the courts decision, making it a movie which you can't take your eyes off of despite being an impressive 149 minutes long. With a story which whilst essentially a court room drama where two lawyers battle it out in front of a judge it is also a powerful movie which covers murder, rape, vengeance and with it being set in the south also racial tensions.
And to be honest "A Time to Kill" still remains for me not only Grisham's best novel but also the best movie adaptation delivering a multi-layered story which whilst differs slightly from the book manages to stay as close to it as possible. "A Time to Kill" was the first novel which John Grisham published, it was also the first John Grisham novel I read and whilst it wasn't the first of his novels to be adapted into a movie it was the first one I watched.
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