A Time to Kill
“Experience a time you'll never forget.”
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
Genres
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Studio
Regency Enterprises
Language
en
Status
Released
How A Time to Kill performed
Budget
$40.0M
Worldwide Gross
$152.3M
Gross Profit
$112.3M
Return
3.8× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$26M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (35% of the domestic run, typical for Crime) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Jake Brigance
Matthew McConaughey
Jake Brigance
Ellen Roark
Sandra Bullock
Ellen Roark
Carl Lee Hailey
Samuel L. Jackson
Carl Lee Hailey
Rufus Buckley
Kevin Spacey
Rufus Buckley
Carla Brigance
Ashley Judd
Carla Brigance
Lucien Wilbanks
Donald Sutherland
Lucien Wilbanks
Harry Rex Vonner
Oliver Platt
Harry Rex Vonner
Ozzie Walls
Charles S. Dutton
Ozzie Walls
Ethel Twitty
Brenda Fricker
Ethel Twitty
Freddie Lee Cobb
Kiefer Sutherland
Freddie Lee Cobb
Judge Omar Noose
Patrick McGoohan
Judge Omar Noose
Tonya Hailey
Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly
Tonya Hailey
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