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A Time to Kill (1996)  link to A Time to Kill on IMDb  

Number: 55

poster A Time to Kill

IMDb Rating:
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7.4/10 (109578 votes)

Country: USA, 149 minutes

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Crime, Drama, Thriller

Director(s): Gil Kenan

Storyline:
In Canton, Mississippi, 10-year-old Tonya Hailey is viciously brutalized by two white racist rednecks -- James Louis "Pete" Willard and Billy Ray Cobb. Almost immediately after Tonya is found and rushed to a hospital, Pete and Billy Ray are found at a roadside bar, where they had been bragging about what they did to Tonya. Tonya's understandably distraught and enraged father, Carl Lee Hailey, remembers a case from a year ago, when four white men raped an African-American girl in a nearby town, and got acquitted. Carl is determined to not let that happen in this case. While deputy Dwayne Powell Looney is escorting Pete and Billy Ray up a flight of stairs to a court room, Carl emerges from the building's basement with an assault rifle, and he kills Pete and Billy Ray for what they did to Tonya. Carl is later arrested at his house by African-American sheriff Ozzie Walls, and Carl is scheduled to be placed on trial. Despite the efforts of the NAACP and local African-American leaders to ...

Cast:

photo Matthew McConaughey Matthew McConaughey Jake Tyler Brigance
photo Sandra Bullock Sandra Bullock Ellen Roark
photo Samuel L. Jackson Samuel L. Jackson Carl Lee Hailey
photo Kevin Spacey Kevin Spacey D.A. Rufus Buckley
photo Oliver Platt Oliver Platt Harry Rex Vonner

Medium: Digital Copy,

Location: F:\Films\A Time To Kill\A Time To Kill.mkv

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 2.35:1