A Time to Kill (1996) on Netflix
In Mississippi, Carl Lee Hailey is charged with killing the two white men who raped his ten-year-old daughter, Tonya. His friend Jake Brigance, a young lawyer, defends him as the Klan returns.
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Plot summary
Two white men, Billy Ray Cobb and Pete Willard, abduct, rape and beat ten-year-old Tonya Hailey in Mississippi, then leave her in a river. She lives, and Sheriff Ozzie Walls arrests both of them. Her father, Carl Lee Hailey, asks his friend Jake Brigance, a lawyer who once defended his brother, to take the family's case; Jake warns him the pair could go free. Carl Lee takes an automatic rifle into the county courthouse and kills the two. Arrested and charged, he wants Jake to represent him rather than lawyers sent by the NAACP. District Attorney Rufus Buckley seeks a death sentence, Judge Omar Noose refuses a change of venue, and Jake works with law student Ellen Roark and his old mentor Lucien Wilbanks while Billy Ray's brother Freddie Lee Cobb brings in the Mississippi Klan.
Cast
- Rae'Ven Larrymore Kellyas Tonya Hailey (as RaéVen Larrymore Kelly)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Time to Kill (1996)
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- John Grisham used his casting approval to veto director Joel Schumacher's pick of Woody Harrelson for the lead, a role modeled on Grisham himself; Val Kilmer was also considered.
- Samuel L. Jackson later said editors cut big emotional scenes for his character, complaining the trims cost him a shot at an Oscar nomination.
- A question mark was added to the end of the film's translated title, turning it into "Le Droit de tuer ?" or "The Right to Kill ?", so as not to shock the audience.
