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Bald Move Prestige

A Time to Kill (1996)

Bald Move Prestige

Bald Move

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.5942 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

This movie poses the question, “How do we feel about vigilante justice?” Carl Lee Hailey, played by Samuel L. Jackson, faces trial for taking revenge on the men who brutalized his young daughter. The movie treads multiple fine lines about race, justice, and hatred in America. Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, and Donald Sutherland round out the cast in this time capsule of Hollywood’s take on justice in 1996. Does it still work? Check out Bald Move’s coverage of The Lost Boys (1987)! Hey there! Check out https://support.baldmove.com/ to find out how you can gain access to ALL of our premium content, as well as ad-free versions of the podcasts, for just $5 a month! Join the Club! Join the discussion: Email | Discord | Reddit | Forums Follow us: Twitch | YouTube | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Leave Us A Review on Apple Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everybody welcome back to another bald move prestige movie today we're talking about 1996 is a time to kill

0:06.9

the legal thriller directed by Joel Schumacher

0:11.1

we've talked about his film The Lost Boys in the old Bald Move Archives probably

0:16.3

probably look for on Bald Move Pulp for that one. He's also directed Batman

0:20.7

and Robin falling down which I quite enjoyed back in the day, St. Elmo's Fire.

0:27.5

It was based on a screenplay written by Kiva Goldsman, who was credited as co-creator for much of modern trek.

0:34.7

Did you know that Jim? Oh how could I not know that with all of our coverage of Picard and

0:39.5

now Strange New Worlds? Exactly, Picard Strange New Worlds. Those are the ones.

0:44.0

He also has his hand in I robot.

0:46.7

I am legend, Cinderella man.

0:48.8

He won an Oscar for a script for a beautiful mind, which I remember liking quite a bit too.

0:54.0

So movies based on the novel Time to Kill by famous, famed legal potboiler, writer John Grisham, the firm, Pelican Brief, many others.

1:07.4

I actually was like, God, I wonder if he's still writing books.

1:09.7

He actually is cranking out a book, like a book, a book every year and a half two years to this day

1:16.4

wow that genre always amazes me and maybe we talk about it more later but

1:21.6

fucking rich.

1:22.8

Yeah, yeah, I'm certain. I mean he made six million dollars for this, his first novel.

1:28.8

Yeah, sold for an adaptation for six6 million.

1:33.0

Yeah, yeah, he's printing his own money, man.

1:37.0

Turns out lawyers have a lot of cash and they love reading about themselves.

1:41.0

Apparently. This movie stars Sandra Bullock. Seen her in speed,

1:48.0

gravity, demolition man, etc. Samuel, mother-fucking Jackson, damn near every Quintan Quinton Tarantino film he's been in

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