1996 - Peace and Justice Studies Association https://www.peacejusticestudies.org Mon, 24 Jun 2019 21:51:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 https://www.peacejusticestudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/cropped-icon-1-32x32.png 1996 - Peace and Justice Studies Association https://www.peacejusticestudies.org 32 32 A Time to Kill https://www.peacejusticestudies.org/film/a-time-to-kill/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-time-to-kill Mon, 24 Jun 2019 21:51:00 +0000 https://wp.peacejusticestudies.org/?post_type=film&p=1541 Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L. Jackson) is a heartbroken black father who avenges his daughter’s brutal rape by shooting the bigoted men responsible for the […]

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]]> Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L. Jackson) is a heartbroken black father who avenges his daughter’s brutal rape by shooting the bigoted men responsible for the crime as they are on their way to trial. He turns to Jake Brigance (Matthew McConaughey), an untested lawyer, to defend him. Brigance struggles to believe that he can get Hailey acquitted in this small, segregated Southern town, given Hailey’s race and the deliberate nature of his crimes, but Carl has unshakable faith in him.

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