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A Time to Kill
A young successful and courageous white lawyer, who does his best in order to prove the innocence of a black man whose daughter has brutally raped by two white men, the thing that leads him to murder them, as he follows each small detail that can help him in the case, the thing that brings terrible for him.
17 July 1935, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
14 January 1919, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
22 March 1935, Ogdensburg, New York, USA
18 February 1951, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
6 January 1970, New York City, New York, USA
19 March 1928, Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
3 July 1943, New Lisbon, Wisconsin, USA
12 January 1960, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
May1962, Southern Maine, USA
26 May 1960, Dover, Delaware, USA
3 February 1947, Greenwood, Mississippi, USA
1 May 1950, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
June 14, 2009
A gritty, intense and engaging courtroom drama.
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.
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 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.
June 14, 2009
What craven offal!
July 04, 2004
Looks aren't enough. In the lead, McConaughey isn't there.
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.
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 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.
June 14, 2009
A likable -- maybe even lovable -- movie.
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.