"A Time to Kill" has it all. Disbarred lawyers, Ku Klux members, corrupt police officers, bombs, courtroom drama, fraudulent church preachers, romance and psychiatrists, but most of all, racial tension in the southern states of the USA. Set in the southern Mississippi town of Canton, "A Time to Kill" is about a young, up-coming lawyer Jake Brigance (Matthew McConaughey) who is hired to defend a black man, Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L. Jackson) who gunned …showed first 75 words of 770 total…

…showed last 75 words of 770 total…you look at me. You see a black man". At the very end of the movie, at the end of his summation about what happened to little Tonya Hailey, Jake said to the Juror's, "Now imagine that girl is white". That phrase was the sentence that changed Carl Lee's life. By changing the skin colour of a little girl, a man got to live. That ultimately is what "A Time to Kil"l is about.