Then he takes their place in jail - hoping a smart lawyer will be able to deliver an acquittal, even in a community where emotions run high and race relations leave a lot to be desired.Įnter the hero of the tale, a white attorney who agrees to defend him despite the difficulties he knows it will bring. Emboldened by his rage, he sneaks into the local courthouse and seizes an opportunity to gun them down. But the victim's father is savvy enough to know that a couple of white guys may get off lightly when judged by a jury of their peers. The story begins in a small Mississippi town where a couple of white troublemakers take it into their heads to abduct and rape a young black girl, simply because she's walking down a lonely stretch of road as they barrel along in their pickup truck one day.Īs stupid as they are evil, the criminals are promptly caught, imprisoned, and scheduled for trial. These focus on the question of revenge - and the limits of revenge, if any, when the action that prompted it goes beyond any conceivable definition of civilized behavior. Still, this might be one of the rare occasions when explicit violence is at least partially called for by the plot and theme of the picture. It's regrettable that the filmmakers couldn't find a more subtle way to grab our attention, and that they return to mayhem more than once during their story. "A Time to Kill," based on the best-selling novel by John Grisham, begins with an act of violence so blunt and brutal that it will single-handedly put the movie off limits for many moviegoers.
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