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Jurors | Ku Klux Klan
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Best Breakthrough Performance | 1997 | Matthew
Outstanding Motion Picture | 1997
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture | 1997 | Samuel L.
Best International Actress | 1996 | Sandra
Best International Actress For | 1996 | Sandra
Favorite Supporting Actor Suspense | 1997 | Samuel L.
Favorite Actress Suspense | 1997 | Sandra
Top Box Office Films | 1997 | Elliot
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture | 1997 | Samuel L.
Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television | 1997 | Elliot
Outstanding Youth ActorActress | 1997 | RaeVen Larrymore
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture | 1997 | Tonea
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture | 1997 | Charles S.
Best Supporting Actor | 1997 | Samuel L.
Worst Written Film Grossing Over Million | 1997 | Akiva
Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Drama Film | 1997 | RaeVen Larrymore
Most Promising Actor | 1997 | Matthew
Worst Supporting Actress | 1996 | Brenda
Budget 40,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 152,266,007 USD
In 1984 at the DeSoto County courthouse in Hernando, John Grisham witnessed the harrowing testimony of a twelve-year-old rape victim. The inspiration for the book came from the case of the rape and assault of twelve year old Marcie Scott and her sixteen-year-old sister Julie Scott. Unlike Grisham's depiction, however, the Scotts were white and their assailant, Willie Harris, was black. According to Grisham's official website, Grisham used his spare time to begin his first novel, which "explored what would have happened if the girl's father had murdered her assailants." He spent three years on A Time to Kill and finished it in 1987. Grisham has also cited Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) as an influence. This book is set in 1984. Another stated inspiration was the success of Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent (1990).
Matthew McConaughey auditioned for the role of Freddie Lee Cobb. After reading the script, he preferred the role of Jake Brigance but didn't think they would cast him due to his experience level. He went to director Joel Schumacher, who granted him a private screentest.
The book was John Grisham's first novel. The movie is his fourth.
Kevin Costner was considered for the role of Jake Brigance, but wanted complete control of the project. Author John Grisham objected, and Costner passed on the project.
Woody Harrelson wanted to play Jake Brigance, but John Grisham objected to his casting.
"Jake Tyler Brigance: [in his summation, talking about Tonya Hailey] I want to tell you a story. I'm going to ask you all to close your eyes while I tell you the story. I want you to listen to me. I want you to listen to yourselves. Go ahead. Close your eyes, please. This is a story about a little girl walking home from the grocery store one sunny afternoon. I want you to picture this little girl. Suddenly a truck races up. Two men jump out and grab her. They drag her into a nearby field and they tie her up and they rip her clothes from her body. Now they climb on. First one, then the other, raping her, shattering everything innocent and pure with a vicious thrust in a fog of drunken breath and sweat. And when they're done, after they've killed her tiny womb, murdered any chance for her to have children, to have life beyond her own, they decide to use her for target practice. They start throwing full beer cans at her. They throw them so hard that it tears the flesh all the way to her bones. Then they urinate on her. Now comes the hanging. They have a rope. They tie a noose. Imagine the noose going tight around her neck and with a sudden blinding jerk she's pulled into the air and her feet and legs go kicking. They don't find the ground. The hanging branch isn't strong enough. It snaps and she falls back to the earth. So they pick her up, throw her in the back of the truck and drive out to Foggy Creek Bridge. Pitch her over the edge. And she drops some thirty feet down to the creek bottom below. Can you see her? Her raped, beaten, broken body soaked in their urine, soaked in their semen, soaked in her blood, left to die. Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white."
"D.A. Rufus Buckley: Mr. Haley, before you *stepped outside of yourself* and watched yourself shoot Mr. Willard and Mr. Cobb, were you aware that' if convicted, they could be free in ten years? Carl Lee Hailey: Yes sir. I've heard some people say that. Yes sir. D.A. Rufus Buckley: Do you think men who kidnap a child should be free in 10 years? Carl Lee Hailey: No sir. D.A. Rufus Buckley: Do you think two men who rape a child should be free in 10 years? Carl Lee Hailey: No sir. D.A. Rufus Buckley: Do you think two men who hang a child should be free in 10 years? Carl Lee Hailey: No sir. D.A. Rufus Buckley: Well what do you think should happen? What would be a fair sentence? Jake Tyler Brigance: Objection! D.A. Rufus Buckley: Did they deserve to die, Mr. Hailey? Answer that! Jake Tyler Brigance: Don't answer that Carl Lee! D.A. Rufus Buckley: Do you think they should deserve to die? Carl Lee Hailey: Yes, they deserved to die and I hope they burn in hell!"
