MOVIE · 1996

A Time to Kill

CrimeDramaThriller149 min

In a small Mississippi town, a young lawyer takes the case of a Black father accused of killing the two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, turning one trial into a public reckoning over race and justice. Matthew McConaughey is the untested attorney at the center of the fight, while Samuel L. Jackson's grieving father becomes the focus of media scrutiny, threats, and a revived Ku Klux Klan presence. As the courtroom battle grows, protests, intimidation, and local politics push the case far beyond a question of guilt.