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The ten-year-old's legs are bloody after the rape and beating, and later is seen with a bruised and bloody face.Jake and Roark drink shots at a restaurant.Jake is later seen hung over, and Roark notices his parking job from the night before indicating that he was drunk driving.Jake has a drink with a drunk Lucien who introduces their key psychiatrist witness, who is also a drunk.Roark is drinking beer in public and throws a beer to Jake who eventually gives it back to her.Harry is seen drinking quite often and appears to having a drinking problem.Lucien is seen drinking and is drunk quite often and is known to be a drunk.The two rednecks are in a bar drinking when they are arrested.Two rednecks drink in their pickup truck and later buy several six packs in a local market.Granted, in our opinion, the subject matter is too extreme for younger children and parents should consider whether their kids are mature enough to see this one. True, a lawyer's duty is to defend his/her client any way they can, but this is still something you may wish to discuss with your kids. Yet, he is defended as having been temporarily insane. There is also a disturbing rape scene involving a ten-year-old girl that is recounted in detail in the court room.Ī more subtle disturbing point is that we know, as does Jake, that Carl Lee's actions were premeditated.

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OUR WORD TO PARENTS: Despite our praise of the movie, parents should be alerted that the film is full of racial tension, hatred and violence.

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Despite the subject material and some very ugly scenes, we highly recommend this movie and give it an 8 out of 10. The performances are superb all the way down to the supporting characters and other than a few flaws (such as why it takes Jake so long to accept Roark's help when it's obvious that he desperately needs it), the plot works very well. OUR TAKE: 8 out of 10 The second best of the Grisham adaptions to the big screen ("The Firm" still being the best), this film is dramatically enjoyable and thought provoking.

KIEFFER SUTHERLAND plays a violent racist and thus isn't a good role model.

Despite breaking into an office to obtain evidence, she's a good role model.

SANDRA BULLOCK plays a young, determined and bright law student.

SAMUEL JACKSON plays the distraught father emotionally pushed to violence who has no remorse for his actions.

MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY plays a defender of the downtrodden, and despite his oath to defend his client by any means possible, the fact that he knows that Carl Lee's actions were premeditated is troubling for the character's integrity.

WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: R For violence and some graphic language. Also, Matthew McConaughey is now a teen heartthrob and this is a John Grisham (The Firm, Pelican Brief etc.) story so there are draws all across the board. WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? There's a lot of star power here that might draw kids to this one. Everything comes to a full boil when the case finally has its day in court. Things begin to get sticky when the KKK rears its ugly head, characterized by Freddie Cobb (KIEFER SUTHERLAND), a brother to one of the slain men. Meanwhile, DA Rufus Buckley (KEVIN SPACEY), making his way up to the Governor's office, can't wait to tackle this one, as is the case with Ellen Roark (SANDRA BULLOCK), a young, rich law student who wants to join the defense.

Jake feels compelled to take the case partly because Carl Lee had early implied to him what he might do, and now Jake feels guilty over an action he may have been able to stop. His only supporter is his former mentor and now disbarred alcoholic, Lucien Wilbanks (DONALD SUTHERLAND). Jake takes the case despite advice from his alcoholic lawyer friend Harry Rex Vonner (OLIVER PLATT), Judge Noose (PATRICK McGOOHAN) and wife Carla (ASHLEY JUDD) to not take it. Imprisoned and facing capital murder charges, he wants Jake Brigance (MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY), a young, inexperienced and financially troubled lawyer as his attorney. Her father, Carl Lee Hailey (SAMUEL JACKSON), is understandably infuriated and believing that the two men might walk, takes the law into his own hands and kills them. PLOT: In Canton, Mississippi, two white rednecks abduct, rape and nearly kill a ten-year-old black girl.

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QUICK TAKE: Drama: A young, inexperienced lawyer defends a black man on trial for murdering two white men who raped his daughter. (1996) (Matthew McConaughey, Samuel Jackson, Sandra Bullock) (R)