A Time to Kill
Released: July 24, 1996Runtime: 149 minRated: MPA · R
A young Mississippi lawyer defends a black man who killed the two white men that raped his preteen daughter.
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- $40.0M($84.1M today)
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- $108.8M($228.8M today)
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- at the movies with ebert roeper a very brady sequel she s the one kansas city girls town the spitfire grill
- at the movies with ebert roeper the chamber the ghost and the darkness the long kiss goodnight looking for richard freeway
- chicago hope a time to kill
- friends the one where monica and richard are just friends
- jackie brown 1997
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- 📍 London, Ontario, Canada
- 📍 New Regency Productions
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- 📍 Warner Bros.
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Matthew Mcconaughey
as Jake Tyler Brigance
Sandra Bullock
Samuel L Jackson
as Carl Lee Hailey
Kevin Spacey
as D.A. Rufus Buckley
Oliver Platt
as Harry Rex Vonner
Charles S Dutton
as Sheriff Ozzie Walls
Brenda Fricker
as Ethel Twitty
Donald Sutherland
as Lucien Wilbanks
Kiefer Sutherland
as Freddie Lee Cobb
Patrick Mcgoohan
as Judge Omar Noose
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