While many of the Clanton residents demand a swift trial and the death penalty, Brigance digs deeper to discover there's more to the story than meets the eye. The film also starred Oliver Platt, Donald Sutherland and Kiefer Sutherland.Ī Time for Mercy is set five years after Brigance's monumental court case, during which he is reluctantly assigned to the case of a young man who shot and killed his mother's boyfriend, who is a deputy sheriff. The Ku Klux Klan incite violence as 'retribution' in the small fictional town of Clanton.
He was a lean, tough little punk who had survived. At twenty-three he was already a three-year veteran of the state penitentiary at Parchman. It is based on John Grisham s 1989 novel of the same name. The legal thriller - set in 1980s Mississippi, where racial tensions are simmering - follows Brigance and his assistant (played by Bullock) defending a Black man called Carl Lee Hailey (Jackson) on trial, who is accused of murdering two white men who raped his ten-year-old daughter. Billy Ray Cobb was the younger and smaller of the two rednecks. A Time to Kill is a 1996 American legal drama film. The movie is based on the popular novel by John Grisham and has themes of integrity and perseverance.A TV adaptation of John Grisham's best-selling novel A Time For Mercy, which is a sequel to his classic thriller A Time to Kill, is currently in development at US network HBO, which has acquired the rights to the book.Ī Time to Kill was adapted into the 1996 movie starring Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock and Samuel L Jackson, and Deadline reports that McConaughey is in talks to reprise his role as defence attorney Jake Brigance. Characters swear ("s-t" and more) and use racially charged slurs (the "N" word) they also drink and smoke. In 'A Time to Kill,' young, inexperienced, white Mississippi lawyer Jake Brigance ( Vanity Fair cover boy Matthew McConaughey) takes on the defense of Carl Lee Hailey ( Samuel L. Expect to see racial violence (including a cross burning) and the use of guns/weapons characters are killed, and the rape scene is very upsetting. The chain of events following the death of these men creates an atmosphere of tension within the small Southern town, and revenge is sought by the Ku Klux Klan.
Jackson) accused of killing the two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter. Parents need to know that A Time to Kill is a drama set in Mississippi about a white lawyer ( Matthew McConaughey) who defends a black man ( Samuel L. An adaptation of John Grishams first novel that depicts the story of how a white lawyer defends a black man who is on trial for killing his daughters.
Characters drink and drive.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Two characters are alcoholics who drink throughout the film. When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the violent racists who raped his ten-year-old daughter, the people of the small town of Clanton, Mississippi.
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