A Time to Kill (1996)
Experience a time you'll never forget.
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A Time to Kill rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic
IMDb7.5/10· 192K votes
Rotten Tomatoes66%
Metacritic53%
TMDb7.39/10· 3K votesWith 66% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.5/10 on IMDb and 53/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.
About A Time to Kill
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.
Cast of A Time to Kill
Matthew McConaughey
as Jake Brigance
Sandra Bullock
as Ellen Roark
Samuel L. Jackson
as Carl Lee Hailey
Kevin Spacey
as Rufus Buckley
Ashley Judd
as Carla Brigance
Donald Sutherland
as Lucien Wilbanks
Oliver Platt
as Harry Rex Vonner
Charles S. Dutton
as Ozzie Walls
Brenda Fricker
as Ethel Twitty
Kiefer Sutherland
as Freddie Lee Cobb
Patrick McGoohan
as Judge Omar Noose
- R
Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly
as Tonya Hailey
A Time to Kill facts
- Budget
- $40M
- Box office
- $152.3M
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Audience opinions
What the audience liked
- •Avenging father narrative tackles capital punishment with moral complexity
- •Crime thriller explores black community perspectives authentically
- •Schumacher directs courtroom drama with genuine emotional weight
What the audience disliked
- •Heavy-handed messaging occasionally overwhelms nuanced character moments
- •Attempted hanging sequences feel exploitative rather than impactful
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