Whist walking home from the market, ten-year-old Tonya Hailey is raped and beaten to near death by two racist rednecks, Billy Ray Cobb and Pete Willard, in between them gallivanting around town in a pickup truck marked with a Confederate flag, and guzzling cans of cheap beer. It’s a hot and humid summer afternoon in Clanton, Mississippi. “A Time to Kill” tackles several debatable and controversial issues components of right and wrong, white and black, vigilante justice, and the very fabric of our legal system.
“A Time to Kill” is unique in that the viewer knows for certain what has happened in both crimes the rape and subsequent murder, though the protagonists of the film can never be quite certain.
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The men are slain due to his perceived notion that they will receive an unfair trial because of the heavy racial tensions present in the Mississippi delta. Set in the fictitious town of Clanton, Mississippi (the setting for several other books written by the southern born Grisham, himself having grown up in Mississippi and a graduate of the prestigious Ole Miss Law School) the story follows the trial of a working class black man who has murdered the two drunken rednecks that raped and assaulted his ten-year-old daughter. Seven years after the book, “A Time to Kill” reached the theatres, and the star-packed cast delivered a phenomenal film that does a successful job of following the book and leaves the audience gasping for breath with every scene that unfolds. It’s been twenty-four years since Grisham’s debut novel, and the 1989 masterpiece “A Time to Kill” remains one of his best works. Author John Grisham has mastered the ability to turn the would-be-dull rumblings of lawyers, judges, and juries into thrilling and gripping, edge of your seat, page-turning heavyweight novels, several of which (“The Firm,” “The Client,” “ The Pelican Brief” to name a few) have been transformed into equally gripping (though never quite as good as the book) movies.
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