A Time to Kill - Did He Like It?
A Time to Kill , the popular courtroom drama tells the emotionally charged, now-iconic story of a young, idealistic lawyer, Jack Brigance, defending a black man, Carl Lee Hailey, for taking the law into his own hands following an unspeakable crime committed against his young daughter. Their small Mississippi town is thrown into upheaval, and Jake finds himself arguing against the formidable district attorney, Rufus Buckley, and under attack from both sides of a racially divided city. This drama is a thrilling courtroom battle where the true nature of what is right and what is moral are called into question.
October 20, 2013: The ceiling fans keep twirling away up there on the stage of the John Golden Theater on Broadway, as if to dispel all the heat and tension gathering in the courtroom where much of “A Time to Kill,” a stage adaptation of the John Grisham novel, takes place. But the producers might have saved a little on the electricity bill.
October 20, 2013: Broadway seldom goes in for courtroom dramas anymore, a genre that has remained a staple of primetime TV through endless iterations of the Law & Order franchise. So the producers of A Time to Kill didn't take any chances, choosing to adapt a 1989 best-seller by John Grisham. Better yet for name recognition, the source material also yielded a hit 1996 movie starring Matthew McConaughey and Sandra Bullock as young defense lawyers drawn into a racially charged murder case in a small Mississippi town. The producers even drafted Law & Order alum Fred Dalton Thompson, now chrome-domed, to play the judge. All that's missing is the sonic cha-ching between scenes.
October 20, 2013: A paperback copy of John Grisham's novel "A Time to Kill" will set you back less than $10. The DVD of the film will cost a few bucks more. The new adaptation on Broadway? Tickets at the box office start at $70.
October 20, 2013: A hardworking turntable lets us see the courtroom from different angles during the many scenes in "A Time to Kill," Rupert Holmes' adaptation of John Grisham's 1989 bestseller about a racially charged murder trial in mean-town Mississippi.
October 20, 2013: Hey, did you hear the one about the 10-year-old African-American girl who was raped and left for dead in the Deep South? No? That’s because John Grisham’s 1988 best-seller “A Time to Kill” is a mortifying story about the loss of childhood innocence, race relations, murder and justice.