A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
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as Jake Brigance
as Ellen Roark
as Carl Lee Hailey
as Rufus Buckley
as Carla Brigance
as Lucien Wilbanks
as Harry Rex Vonner
as Ozzie Walls
as Ethel Twitty
as Freddie Lee Cobb
Filipe Manuel Neto
Jun 16, 2023
**It's a good movie, but I've seen better courtroom dramas.** I saw this film not long ago and was very impressed with its quality. I didn't know, however, that it was based on a novel by John Grisham (I've never read it, and I have doubts if it was translated into Portuguese), and based very lightly on the emotional testimony of a young girl vi…
CinemaSerf
Aug 27, 2023
The opening scenes of this movie are the sort that stay with you for ever: the brutal assault and murder of a young girl by two rednecks in Mississippi. Before their trial, they are gunned down in the courthouse by the girl's bereft father "Carl Lee Hailey" (Samuel L. Jackson) and it falls to "Brigance" (Matthew McConaughey) to defend the man in a …
