A Time to Kill (1996)

Hot young newcomer Matthew McConaughey ("Boys on the Side," "Dazed and Confused"), Oscar-nominee Samuel L. Jackson ("Pulp Fiction," "Die Hard 3") and superstar Sandra Bullock head an all-star cast in this stunning thriller from best-selling author John Grisham ("The Client," "The Pelican Brief," "The Firm"). In front of hundreds of witnesses in a Southern town, a distraught man murders the two racist thugs who brutally assaulted his young daughter, and an idealistic young lawyer and a savvy law student team to defend him. Co-starring Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland, Keifer Sutherland, Ashley Judd, Oscar-winner Brenda Fricker, Oliver Platt, Patrick McGoohan and Charles S. Dutton.