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A Time to Kill

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A Time to Kill
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R,2hrs 30min
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July 24, 1996
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Regency Entertainment/Warner Home Entertainme
Synopsis: Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L. Jackson) takes the law into his own hands after the legal system fails to adequately punish the men who brutally raped and beat his daughter, leaving her for dead. Normally, a distraught father could count on some judicial sympathy in those circumstances. Unfortunately, Carl and his daughter are black, and the assailants are white, and all the events take place in the South. Indeed, so inflammatory is the situation, that the local KKK (led by Kiefer Sutherland) becomes ... Full Synopsis
Featured Cast
Jake Brigance
Carl Lee Hailey
Ellen Roark
Rufus Buckley
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