Claiming self-defense, the boy says he only shot his father to protect his mother, his sister, and himself from sustaining further abuse. Word is it was McConaughey who got the ball rolling on the new adaptation after hearing about the new Grisham novel, as the actor was drawn to the idea of revisiting the role that helped launch his career.Ī Time for Mercy is set five years after the events of A Time to Kill, with Jake now assigned to the case of a young man who shot and killed his mother's boyfriend - who just so happened to be a deputy sheriff. More recently, Grisham brought back Jake for the third time for the 2020 novel A Time for Mercy, which serves as the creative inspiration for the HBO Max series. Grisham previously brought back the Jake Brigance character for the followup novel Sycamore Road, which was released in 2013.
The movie earned immense critical acclaim and was a smash hit at the box office, and for his part, McConaughey won Best Breakthrough Performance at the MTV Movie Awards. Dutton, Donald Sutherland, Kiefer Sutherland, Brenda Fricker, and Ashley Judd. Along with McConaughey and Jackson, the movie also starred Kevin Spacey, Oliver Platt, Charles S. In short, a trial lawyer's nightmare.After the original novel was a hit for Grisham, A Time to Kill was adapted into a movie by director Joel Schumacher and writer Akiva Goldsman.
Soon, Jake Brigance would have more on his plate than he ever bargained for: a case that would shatter his life personally and professionally. In short, a trial lawyer's dream.įor Carl Lee Hailey was black his politically ambitious prosecutor and judge-as well as his victims-were white.īefore long, the case would transform a quiet Southern town into a battlefield, swarming with journalists and camera crews, marching Klansmen and singing civil rights groups, presided over by the National Guard. It was a case that was attracting national attention, a case that could mean fame and fortune. To some, it was justice to others, murder.įaced with the grim prospect of the gas chamber, Carl Lee sought help from Jake Brigance, a young, ambitious attorney whose adrenaline surged as he took on Carl Lee's defense. Armed with an M-16 rifle, he pumped them full of bullets in a bloody courthouse massacre. Days later, unable to contain his grief and rage, her father, Carl Lee Hailey, took revenge against Tonya's attackers. On a spring afternoon in Clanton, Mississippi, when 10-year-old Tonya Hailey should have been attending to childlike things, two rednecks subjected her to a rape and beating so savage it would leave her scarred forever.
Now he presents us with a masterfully drawn, fever-pitched courtroom drama of vengeance and retribution.
Intricate plotting, whirlwind pacing and behind-the-scenes authenticity made John Grisham's legal thriller The Firm a runaway best seller.
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