• "A Time to Kill", Directed by Joel Schumacher, Based on the Novel by John Grisham

     

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Published: 04.09.2005.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays '"A Time to Kill", Directed by Joel Schumacher, Based on the Novel by John Grisha', 1.
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"A Time to Kill" has it all. Disbarred lawyers, Ku Klux members, corrupt police officers, bombs, courtroom drama, fraudulent church preachers, romance and psychiatrists, but most of all, racial tension in the southern states of the USA.
Set in the southern Mississippi town of Canton, "A Time to Kill" is about a young, up-coming lawyer Jake Brigance (Matthew McConaughey) who is hired to defend a black man, Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L. Jackson) who gunned down two young rednecks who kidnapped and viciously raped his 10 year old daughter. …

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