A Time to Kill

In 'A Time to Kill', Matthew McConaughey plays Jake Brigance, a young attorney who decides to defend a black man, Carl Lee Hailey, played by Samuel L. Jackson. Hailey is on trial for killing two white men who raped his daughter. The case stirs a racial tension in their small Southern town and Brigance must struggle against a violent backlash from the Ku Klux Klan as well as the legal and personal consequences.

• Matthew McConaughey's breakout role was in this movie.
• Based on the first published novel by John Grisham.
• Charlize Theron had a small, uncredited role.
• The movie was filmed in Canton, Mississippi.
• Sandra Bullock reportedly reduced her salary to get her role.

• Yes, they deserved to die and I hope they burn in hell!
• I set out to prove a black man could receive a fair trial in the south.
• Now, imagine she's white.
• You think just like them, that's why I picked you.
• Until that moment, I think I'd been an agnostic.