A Time to Kill

(1996)

★ 7.4 IMDb · 3,080 votes

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Year: 1996

Runtime: 149 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Джоэл Шумахер

Cast: Мэттью Макконахи, Сандра Буллок, Сэмюэл Л. Джексон, Кевин Спейси, Эшли Джадд, Дональд Сазерленд, Оливер Платт, Чарльз С. Даттон, Brenda Fricker, Кифер Сазерленд

Plot

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.

When an innocent little African American girl named Tonya Hailey is raped and beaten by 2 beer-guzzling rednecks, the town of Canton, Mississippi is shocked. Her father, Carl Lee, is outraged, and figuring he could not see those boys be set free, decides to take justice into his own hands and kills them in front of numerous witnesses in the courthouse. Now it's up to Jake Brigance to get him off the hook. He has people that help him, but he is up against tough D.A. Rufus Buckley. Will he be able to prove that a black man can get a fair trial in Mississippi?