A Time to Kill

About A Time to Kill

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.

A Time to Kill is a 1996 crime thriller film directed by Joel Schumacher. Matthew McConaughey stars as Jake Brigance, Sandra Bullock as Ellen Roark, Samuel L. Jackson as Carl Lee Hailey, and Kevin Spacey as Rufus Buckley.

It runs 149 minutes and was released in July 1996. Written by Akiva Goldsman. Production companies include Regency Enterprises and Warner Bros. Pictures.

Members will find blackmail, frightened, trial, and courtroom in it. It scores 7.4 out of 10 from 3,113 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.

12 Angry Men, Primal Fear, and Anatomy of a Murder make useful companions to A Time to Kill, all filed under capital punishment and courtroom drama.