He made them realize they weren't giving the black dude a fair shake.

Imagine this film, but the races were reversed. You'd all be calling this film hateful and racist lol. Don't pretend you guys care about racial equality.

@Mothra J Ok cool, explain to me how I’m racist.

@@spenser9908 I mean, of course the movie wouldn’t have any merit to it, and it probably would be called racist, but not because of us seeing black people as better. It’d be a straight stealing of historical context, we as white people in America don’t have the history of enslavement so recently (except in subgroups by religion.) Imagine a movie that took such an important statement in such a recent historical context (as in, actions like this actually happened against black children,) but it was all about white people being the underprivileged and abused and black people the abusers. It’’d be really damn stupid. That argument doesn’t work because of our history.

Not all dad's unfortunately. Mine sexually abused me when I was 20 ten years ago this year and even though he touched me inappropriately and looking back, one miracle that came out of it was I didn't fully orgasm. My body reacted in a way when he fingered me and touched/massaged my breasts, but not once did I cum even though I'll admit the rest of it did feel great, but I was so ashamed my body reacted and liked the feeling. I'm over it now and know it wasn't my fault, he didn't care what he did because 2 years ago after 8 years of getting away with it (he only touched me for 2-3 months and was under thr radar for 8 years as if nothing happened) and when he and mom were divorced 2 months at the time, his first words he said apparently when he called her thr day he was arrested was, "I wish Nichole would have kept her mouth shut." So in other words, he's not a real dad and no dad would ever say that to his child ESPECIALLY when I'm the oldest. He doesn't deserve to be dad anymore. But I've moved on, I don't contact him anymore even when he and mom split and he filed for divorce which was a good thing because he was also mentally, emotionally, verbally abusive nd Manipulative like none other. Oh and he was a sex addict we all later learned too. So to have him use me as a sex object for his pleasure just makes me sick inside. He wasn't physically abusive thank goodness, but it was a toxic life growing up and as soon as he left the house, the spirit and atmosphere of itchanged, we weren't walking on egg shells and could actually BE OURSELVES and happy. So this is why I love this film and not that I'd always say Samuel's reaction is always the best way but it shows what a true parent is. YOU HAVE TO EARN THE RIGHT TO BE CALLED MOM AND DAD. And my dad unfortunately lost that privilege. My mom also put up 30 years of all that abuse (except physical as much as I know) and if there's a word beyond saint, that's her. I'm just glad he's out of our lives

K brutal or realistic?

@@theartofflying3580 are you implying that realism and brutality can't exist at the same time?

Definitely not the most brutal way possible. Their deaths could've been far worse.

@@nexusBOS should have far worse .

nexusBOS death is an escape there are fates far worse than death.

Same way after Samuel L. Jackson said had a “I should not have said that!” look after saying “Yes they deserve to die and I hope they burn in Hell!”

More like about to burst into tears.

That WAS NOT acting, my friend. It was his OWN humanity.

Guys a legend

I don't really know about going to vomit, more like just choking on emotion.

Camron Zadegan Yes, he played this role to perfection!

I knew he would be a star when I saw him in this. His acting skills are on point.

That's because he did a lot of silly rom-coms with a few serious roles here and there.

stupid people were not interesting in his acting . they only saw him as beefcake...too bad

He's also great in Frailty! One of my favorites.

so full of details of Tonya's rape, I can't even imagine how two men could hurt someone so young and innocent. It's inhumane

I completely agree with you. The same thing happens to me.

oh...sorry to hear that.

sorry to hear that! Hope you are doing well and okey.

***** rape no matter what race is raped white or black is deplorable. And sweetie statistics on rapes are not accurate at all because a majority of sexual assaults go unreported.

incredible

Hahahahaha no it fucking doesnt. It's a completely retarded film, like every fucking angle.

@@trevordrexler1138 cry about it

White or not, killing two rapist out of anger is cold blood murder, and its not justice, his daughter is still alive, if he cut off balls of those two men thats 'probably' acceptable as he ruin the girl womb, but take their lives away after they were arrested ? thats not justice at all.

Why not?

Mike Basil You forgot anatomy of a murder ma boi

On second thought, maybe it would confuse you further😂😂

precisely!

Funny thing, the asshole DA all but destroyed the “temporary insanity” excuse with Carl Lee saying “Yes they deserved to die and I hope they burn in Hell!” I think the point of this scene is show that sometimes vigilantism is necessary!

Temporary insanity is when you lose control and have remorse. There's no cover up or premeditation and you can't make any statements about being thrilled people are dead. Temporary insanity is when you're schizophrenic and go of your meds and believe people are talking to you through the fillings in your teeth telling you to kill your neighbor. Once on your meds, you are horrified and would rather be dead than know that you killed Mrs. Sweet who came to all your baseball games. I'm a lawyer (not criminal defense) but I still hear all types of cases.

Jess Jacobs 😢

It was all sad.. But yea that part hit me so bad. I couldn't stop crying

I don’t give a shit about race. Anytime a child is abused in such an unspeakable fashion, it becomes the duty of decent people to take action and blow these pieces of shit away. This is why I think the Menendez Brothers should receive clemency. They were sexually abused.

@Miles Doyle ?

Just goes to show how racist those men are, they don’t want Black Americans to reproduce. This was a really intense movie and I felt it really brought up a great question; “What justifies killing?” Usually my answer would be never, but if it were my daughter that had gone through what that sweet little girl had gone through then I’d probably do what Carl Lee had done too.

Bit made me cry is when the little girl is in the arms of her father after she had been beaten and raped and she says " Daddy I'm sorry I dropped the grocerys 😪😪

The first line didn't age well but te second...oooooff that hurts

@@debbiewebster732Same here. I don’t blame the dad one bit for killing the two monsters that did that to her.

One can't really put himself in the position of the father until they become a parent. It's really heartbreaking, really.

I'm an uncle, but, I get where you're coming from.

Man i have a girl and a sister this scene boils my blooooooooood

Am not a mother but I will do the same I would want to kill him or them as a victim of sexual abuse I think it hits me more hard he always makes me cry. No matter ur race skin color religion exact we’re alll the same inside we all have the same organs and everything we like different color flowers why can’t we love everyone the same

And the crime in the book is so much worse. It's almost impossible to read in a sitting.

Sarkastik Leader I can’t believe the critics attacked this movie so badly back in the 90s. It got a lot of terrible reviews.

@@offspringfan1288 Low scores from dumbasses.

Sarkastik Leader As you say I never forgot the intensity of this scene and I watched this movie 24 years ago His words, his expression, his interpretation in this very scene made this movie unforgettable for me

This movie is a masterpiece. It’s unbelievable that the same guy directed Batman and Robin!

@@joelubas1752 No, It’s not. Joel Schumacher wrote and directed a lot of good shit

Depends on what he was charged with. Growing up i never understood how he could be completely innocent since he clearly and obviously killed those guys. Now that i understand the law better, if the state just went after 1st degree murder as the only charge, i suppose that he didn't meet the standard for murder 1. It's been a while since i've seen this movie, but unless i'm mistaken, they never talk about the charges, and the judge never really gives the jury any instruction, and we don't see the foreman actually read the charges...just the little boy running out of the courtroom yelling "Carl Lee is innocent." So yeah...if the state went after a bunch of lesser charges, he certainly should have been charged with something, but it's possible that the state overplayed their hand and went for the max.

He did what any father would have done if their little girl was raped and left for dead

He was guilty. This was not meant to be an illustration of temporary insanity or even overcharging by the D.A. Rather, it was an illustration of jury nullification.

​@@brandonbuchner1771 dawg no one's gonna care what he was charged with as ajuror after they hear the story. just like no juror will forget when a judge tells them to strict that from there memory.

​@@bauerj3398 oh shut up Bauer. someone getting so deep and trying to be smart. God you look like such a tool by your profile.

I took it as it was a double edge sword one was "oh that could been one of us" and the other half would think we'll what does that matter then then bam catch their own prejudice pretty. clever

@Miles Doyle Okay, but what did you think of the movie?

It’s bc of their prejudice they didn’t see the father as human, they didn’t see the child as human, racist see us as animals with no feelings, they were ready to convict him, until all those words finally hit them when the child was described looking like them. It’s about prejudice. I always say I wish white ppl could live one day in our shoes when I hear comments about blacks always playing the race card, if you guys could live just one day in our shoes oh how the world would love more.

or "made them actually relate to the situation" which is obviously not part of the judicial system but whatevs

Maybe every black BLM supporter should take that text, since they only seem to care about their own race being killed by cops. "Now do you give a shit about them? If they were black, would you give a shit then?" Only difference is, the racist all-white jury in that movie was fictional. BLM is real.

same

tss92777 it's very much like it. That's my favorite book and this one is my second favorite. Both will change you.

The movie is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' -_-

Sushant Mishra no it's not...

Oh I remember that, saw the film too

Ummmm his performance in Interstellar mops the floor with this scene, all he did here was play the race card.

Well,he's been back to shit roles for these past few years.

@@tiaaaron3278 the gentleman was a good movie

@@gm7947 Agreed

@Miles Doyle if you was a true preacher for god you would of typed that all yourself instead of copy and pasting it, but I appreciate the blessings lol.

"Mic" lol

@@Sean-zs7mz You can also say “mike”, aside from “mic”. Feel free to look it up… LOL.

Interesting I didn't know that your right

Are you serious???? Wow. Brilliant

I just read this part and that's why I came here

What did he say?

There have ALWAYS AND WILL ALWAYS be people like that.

This is actually true there are people like this and I couldn't agree more he should have got recognition for that role in a way that Samuel L Jackson Reacted as a father any father who has a kid like that would react the same way and there's somebody out there every day walking amongst people not knowing who kids can trust and who they can trust The sad thing is this is only a movie but it portrays real life situations

Agreed

​@@richardpowers2622Samuel L Jackson's acting is fantastic. The way it erupts from him "Yes, they deserved to die and I hope they burn in hell!" is so raw and powerful, it's inspiring and heartbreaking at the same time.

It's also pathetic that there are people out there who will play the race card to get what they want, even getting a man who knowingly and willingly committed first degree murder. I've said this before and I'll say it again: Don't dare use what happened to his daughter as an excuse, I would have given the two rapists the death penalty if I could have but society cannot survive if ordinary citizens are allowed to just decide who gets to live and who gets to die. That is opening a pandoras box I know you don't want to open.

Natalie Zayas-Bazan Psh. I didn’t cry, just had dust in my eye... or eyes.

I always ball my eyes out.

I didn't cry but at the end I said wow out loud I couldn't believe it. It made me sad and mad because of how white society overlooks and doesn't care much about the incident unless it's a person of their own race.

I'm sorry I couldn't cry I was just full anger to cry so I'm sorry

@@suziepeaches321 thanks man

And it's from the same director who made batman and robin :D

Don't tell people that or they'll never watch this movie.

MrBraddles3128 thanks a bunch

Wasn't this also a book by John Grisham??

Yes, his first if I'm remembering right.

Love this we are our sister's keeper

Probably because it's fictional

Except creepy Spacey in it.

That makes two of us.

it is certainly the best adaptation of a John Grisham novel.

Yea I agree i cry makes me get a knot in my throat

I don't think by the end,his character was meant to come off as a creep. I think he was somewhat touched by the young lawyer's speech and also his skill in making the jury see this event from his eyes. After this,he shook his hand and congratulated him.

Draw on your own experience they say ;)

@Edward89 the film has hidden meaning

@@tiaaaron3278 His character admits he feels sympathy for Carl Lee from the start, and I'm pretty sure he meant it. It's his job as the DA though to uphold the law, and prosecute to the fullest extent.

@@nahor88but he was looking out for number one in his prosecution of the case “I want no mistakes. This is the one we’ve been waiting for.”

Yeah......no. Not even remotely close

@@bauerj3398 What movies include scenes that have the same impact or are acted better? And don’t tell me the Godfather lmao. Most overrated shit I’ve seen

@@Number_99 The absolute hilarity in trumpeting a piece of poorly written, overracted drivel like A Time To Kill, but dismissing The Godfather as overrated. There is literally a thousand movies better than A Time To Kill, and practically countless scenes that are better. But hey, everybody is entitled to an opinion, no matter how stupid.

Well, thankfully, they tend to not give Oscars out for one scene. If somebody would watch Rush in 'Shine' that year, and still say McConaughey should have got the Oscar, I would have a hard time not laughing in their face.

@@bauerj3398 Those two performances are not comparable. Two completely different roles in completely different movies, made by vastly different writers/directors/crew for a different audience. McConaughey played this role magnificently, and Geoffrey Rush couldn't have played better, but it makes no sense to say one performance was "better" than the other, if they were both perfect for the part and played it perfectly. Also the oscars are a joke and should hold no value or meaning in the eyes of any real movie fan.

@@rayaqin What the eff do you mean, they are not comparable? That is exactly what is happening when one mewls about Actor X or Film X not winning an award. It leads to a comparison because for him/her/it to have won, he/she/it would have to be better than what did win. As for your cliche about the oscars being a joke, that is laughably pretentious of you to proclaim that, since the people who actually matter (the actors, directors, producers, etc.) all consider the Oscars to be the pinnacle accomplishment in the business. But hey, you know better than them apparently. You should probably set out to enlighten these morons on what is and what is not a 'joke' in their industry.

Special Operator this movie features a lot of those! “Turn him loose!” Also “Yes they deserve to die and I hope they burn in hell!”

I don’t under stand please explain

Jesus christ you all love really shitty, cheesy lines. Lol, in the movie, a town with zero Klan presence is riddled with hundreds of Klan members after a dude hands out membership flyers...its a white liberals retarded wet dream to kill dumb racist southerners. A stupid movie about no real issue. The people who did the crime didnt even stand trial...literally no one in the movie defended the rapists. They were killed before they even stood trial, and it woulda made way more sense if the entire town let them off, then ya, that's the time to kill. Really, really shitty movie, if you're looking at it through any type of realistic lens.

@@trevordrexler1138 dude shut the fuck up..why are you so mad

@@trevordrexler1138 why did u get so offended?😂

Man, Spacey has pretty much always intimidated me! But for me, it goes beyond his roles on film, and I'm wondering if he's simply a scary guy to mess with. Not that he's physically a badass in real life or anything... I just wouldn't feel relaxed being engaged in any type of confrontation with that guy, especially if he pulled that stare, haha.

lol! :D ...me neither, man! - me neither!... Having said THAT - I think he's an AWESOME Actor by a major "A" and (I'm quite sure of it) a GREAT human being! Have a nice day.! ;)

still sure he's a great human being? lmao

Kevin Spacey in a movie about child molestation...

He does a really good job playing a piece of shit in this movie. I guess when you’re already a piece of shit, it comes naturally.

Lies again? Small Girl

@Miles Doyle don't use Bible verse as a spam!

But that's the thing though, she was white. More specifically they were white. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Time_to_Kill_(Grisham_novel)#Inspiration

It seems to matter all the time when BLM supporters only care about black victims of police brutality and ignore every other race. The difference being, one is a fictional woke movie and the other is real life racism.

Yeah if you reverse the colours.

slicker than eels!

Lol

😂😂😂😂

I just finished watching this film and one thing I couldn't stop noticing was how sweaty all of them were the entire time 😂 Especially his wife and his almost affair

The movie was filmed un the south so it makes sense for them to be hot lol

Agree with most of this, but I don't agree that he made any jurors empathize. He focused in on exactly the opposite, a lack of empathy. Empathy doesn't require visualizing a member of your family, or someone who looks like you. It's already understanding that it doesn't make a difference. This is a lesson in empathy through shaming people into realizing that, even though they consider themselves good people, they lack it.

You are a sick fuck, I like it.

Lmao

You won the internet

Your going to hell for that. But I laughed so I guess I'm going too.

Dam that was good , maybe inappropriate but good .

He is

Not funny!!

I understood that Hunger Games reference and I agree🙂