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Title: A Time to Kill (1996)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Matthew McConaughey | ... | Jake Tyler Brigance | |
| Sandra Bullock | ... | Ellen Roark | |
| Samuel L. Jackson | ... | Carl Lee Hailey | |
| Kevin Spacey | ... | D.A. Rufus Buckley | |
| Oliver Platt | ... | Harry Rex Vonner | |
| Charles S. Dutton | ... | Sheriff Ozzie Walls | |
| Brenda Fricker | ... | Ethel Twitty | |
| Donald Sutherland | ... | Lucien Wilbanks | |
| Kiefer Sutherland | ... | Freddie Lee Cobb | |
| Patrick McGoohan | ... | Judge Omar Noose | |
| Ashley Judd | ... | Carla Brigance | |
| Tonea Stewart | ... | Gwen Hailey | |
| RaéVen Kelly | ... | Tonya Hailey (as RaéVen Larrymore Kelly) | |
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Darrin Mitchell | ... | Skip Hailey |
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LaConte McGrew | ... | Slim Hailey |
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 ... Written by Todd Baldridge
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For me this is actually one of the best movies I've ever seen, not only 'cause of the great performances of all main- and supporting actors, but most of it all because of the message and the feelings it gave me while I was watching it and even still gives me. People are watching movies for the same reason they listen to music or look at paintings, they wanna feel. We all have to come along with people of different colors, nationalities and whatever. The best and most peaceful way to do that, like it's mentioned in the movie, is to listen to our hearts, which for me is the message that the director and screenplay-writer wanted to bring along. I hope I got the message, on any account it made me cry several times which is a thing not many movies have achieved yet. For me as a German who dealt a lot with the history of his own country and also a little with the history of the Ku-Klux-Clan, it was good to see that those people are shown as just what they are: A bunch of mind-sick, dumb and dangerous Nazis. The whole situation in the movie in my opinion stands at the appropriate rate to reality of that time in the south of the United States,what makes it very authentic and traceable. The reason I call it a timeless story although it's certainly set in a special time is that everyone is almost forced to think, at least subconsciously, about the way he or she is dealing with those problems of difference that are always gonna exist. I highly recommend this movie but I will not say enjoy or have fun 'cause you won't find these things in "A time to kill". I also love the title 'cause when you think about it, everyone can become a murderer in the right circumstances. But what you're gonna find is a captivating story, acting on its highest level and strong emotions.