Overview
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
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Cast
 
                    Matthew McConaughey
Jake Brigance
 
                    Sandra Bullock
Ellen Roark
 
                    Samuel L. Jackson
Carl Lee Hailey
 
                    Kevin Spacey
Rufus Buckley
 
                    Ashley Judd
Carla Brigance
 
                    Donald Sutherland
Lucien Wilbanks
 
                    Oliver Platt
Harry Rex Vonner
 
                    Charles S. Dutton
Ozzie Walls
 
                    Brenda Fricker
Ethel Twitty
 
                    Kiefer Sutherland
Freddie Lee Cobb
 
                    Patrick McGoohan
Judge Omar Noose
 
                    Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly
Tonya Hailey
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                    Reviews
Filipe Manuel Neto
**It's a good movie, but I've seen better courtroom dramas.** I saw this film not long ago and was very impressed with its quality. I didn't know, however, that it was based on a novel by John Grisham (I've never read it, and I have doubts if it was translated into Portuguese), and based very lightly on the emotional testimony of a young girl victim of rape. It should be noted, moreover, and by mere curiosity, that, in the real case behind the novel, the victim was a white...
Jun 16, 2023CinemaSerf
The opening scenes of this movie are the sort that stay with you for ever: the brutal assault and murder of a young girl by two rednecks in Mississippi. Before their trial, they are gunned down in the courthouse by the girl's bereft father "Carl Lee Hailey" (Samuel L. Jackson) and it falls to "Brigance" (Matthew McConaughey) to defend the man in a state riddled with institutional and communal bigotry. Kevin Spacey is effective as the DA ("Buckley") who assumes ...
Aug 27, 2023 
             
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                    