Episode 5: A Time to Kill Walks Into the Bar

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The Movie Bar

Bedroth

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Bedroth (who is not a lawyer, but likes movies) and The Diad (who is a lawyer, and also likes movies) get together once a month to discuss a film in the "legal movie" genre. Is it a good movie? How well does it represent the legal profession? Courtroom films, law school films, comedies, dramas, thrillers. You name it, they'll probably talk about it eventually. Grab your popcorn and your briefcase and come join us at The Movie Bar!

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Episode 5: A Time to Kill Walks Into the Bar

The Movie Bar

2 hours 37 minutes 52 seconds

3 years ago

Episode 5: A Time to Kill Walks Into the Bar

**Trigger Warning - Due to its subject matter, this episode contains racial slurs and discussion and descriptions of gun violence and sexual assault, including the assault of a child. Listener discretion is advised.**

The Movie Bar, Episode 5: A Time to Kill Walks Into the Bar!

The Diad and Bedroth head back to the American South as they discuss their first foray into the world of John Grisham in the 1996 drama/thriller A Time to Kill - as always, from the dual standpoints of casual moviegoer and legal expert.

The film, based on Grisham's 1989 novel of the same name, directed by Joel Schumacher from a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman, stars Samuel L. Jackson and Matthew McConaughey as, respectively, Carl Lee Hailey, a Black mill worker whose 10 year old daughter is raped by two white men on her way home from the grocery store, and Jake Brigance, the while lawyer who takes Carl's case after he fatally shoots the two men in the local courthouse. After taking Heiley's case, Brigance and his wife (Ashley Judd) and colleagues (Sandra Bullock, Brenda Fricker, and Oliver Platt) find themselves the targets of the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, summoned by the brother of one of Hailey's victims, Freddie Lee Cobb (Kiefer Sutherland), and must decide whether the risk of losing their reputation (and perhaps their lives) is worth the potential benefit of not only saving Hailey's life, but also of proving that a Black man can have a fair trial.

The film also features Donald Sutherland as Lucien Wilbanks, a once-great civil rights lawyer and Jake's longtime mentor; Kevin Spacey as Rufus Buckley, the politically ambitious and experienced prosecutor; and Charles S. Dutton as county sheriff Ozzie Walls.

Does the film stand the test of time? Does it hold up under legal scrutiny? Join us at the bar and find out!

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