On Netflix you will find a 1996 film with a stellar cast, based on a best seller by John Grisham, nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe, ideal if you love legal thrillers.
On streaming platforms like Netflix you can find some real goodies from the past, like in this case where we highlight a 1996 drama that is worth remembering.
From the director of “Lost boys”, “Batman forever”, “Batman and Robin”, “Bad Company – Prague Protocol”, Joel Schumacherhere is a thriller film about murder, intrigue, justice and social problems.
Is titled “Time to kill” and is taken from the novel “A Time to Kill” Of John Grisham, one of the most important pens in the world in terms of judicial mysteries. Over 300 million copies of his works sold, many of which became successful films.
The cast is truly exceptional, for a thrilling choral rehearsal.
Indeed, we have a young and convincing Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey (“How to get dumped in 20 days”, “Magic Mike”, “The Wolf of Wall Street”) and an actress also very talented Oscar as Sandra Bullock (“Blackmail of love”, “A love of his own”, “The Blind Side“). Along with them, huge names like those of Samuel J. JacksonLifetime Achievement Oscar best known for his work with Spike Lee and Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Spaceytwice Oscar for “The usual suspects” And “American Beauty”, and as if that weren’t enough Kiefer And Donald Sutherland, Ashley Judd And Brenda Fricker. In short, an acting group that rivals any other American film production.
This legal drama that Netflix makes available to you for viewing has all it takes to please lovers of the genre. A film that keeps the tension high but that also makes you move a lot. The story, in fact, touches the strings of the soul and shakes the conscience. With a thorny racial issue between “blacks and whites” that should make you think.
“Time to kill” is a film that leads the viewer to identify with the situations experienced by the protagonists, be they a father who has avenged his daughter or a lawyer ready to do anything to save him from capital punishment.
A film from the 1990s that makes an overbearing return to current events and which is good to remember, also thanks to streaming platforms such as Netflix that always keep it up-to-date.
Time to kill
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We find ourselves in a small town in Mississippi, Canton, seemingly quiet until a ten-year-old African-American girl is kidnapped and raped by two brutal “white men”.
Their unworthy action also leads them to abandon the innocent little girl dying on the side of the road, making the crime even more brutal. However, the little girl survives and helps direct the investigation towards the culprits.
Now they will have to face a onerous and heavy trial for rape. “Time to kill” however comes when the victim’s poor father meditates for them the worst of ends.
In fact, on the day of the hearing, the man in desperation decides to take justice into his own hands, arriving in court armed with a rifle with which he kills the defendants in cold blood.
The man is arrested on suspicion of murder and his case generates a media outcry: there are those who understand his extreme act, those who instead deny it without further explanations.
It will be a young white lawyer who wants to defend him, while the country is divided in two by the arrival of the most extremist branches of the Ku Klux Klan.
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