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In fact, A Time to Kill is at its most compelling and entertaining when Schumacher lets it rip in the old potboiler tradition. Republican’s 'Whistleblower' Charged as Unregistered Foreign Agent In A Time to Kill, way long at 148 minutes, they cram in too much, including Grisham’s polemics about racism, the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan and the moral dilemma of the death penalty. Schumacher and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman adroitly pared down The Client to its emotional core. Still, there should have been limits to pleasing Grisham.

McConaughey, 26, is dynamite in a performance of smarts, sexiness, scrappy humor and unmistakable star sizzle. Grisham rejected the usual star suspects (Brad Pitt, Val Kilmer, Woody Harrelson) but sparked when director Joel Schumacher brought him Matthew McConaughey, a Texas greenhorn best known as Drew Barrymore’s cop loverman in Boys on the Side. Grisham felt close to Jake since he, too, was a young Mississippi lawyer before quitting to write such best sellers-turned-movie blockbusters as The Pelican Brief and The Client.

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Jackson), on trial for killing the two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter. He withheld selling the film rights (for a very impressive $6 million) until he had a say in who would play Jake Brigance, the young Mississippi lawyer defending a black father, Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L. No one takes the film of John Grisham’s 1989 novel, his first and most personal, more seriously than Grisham.

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