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.
19 March 1928, Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
31 August 1961, Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA
19 April 1968, Granada Hills, California, USA
11 October 1948, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1 May 1950, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
18 September 1949, Gadsden, Alabama, USA
20 April 1961, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 February 1947, Greenwood, Mississippi, USA
17 July 1935, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
4 September 1945, Frierson, Louisiana, USA
14 January 1919, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
13 March 1965, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
3 July 1943, New Lisbon, Wisconsin, USA
22 March 1935, Ogdensburg, New York, USA
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.
July 04, 2004
Looks aren't enough. In the lead, McConaughey isn't there.
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
A gritty, intense and engaging courtroom drama.
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.
June 14, 2009
What craven offal!
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...
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.
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 06, 2001
McConaughey, 26, is dynamite in a performance of smarts, sexiness, scrappy humor and unmistakable star sizzle.
June 14, 2009
A likable -- maybe even lovable -- movie.
