John Grisham novel, adapted by Avika Goldsman, two and a half hours that doesn't drag, though I still don't know who Mickey Mouse guy was (who rescued Sandra). Did I miss something?
Matthew McConaughey is rather good, especially in court room summation scene, Samuel L Jackson too as accused man. I have to say the whole ethics of this are particularly murky. There was a not unwelcome scent of Anatomy of a Murder hanging over it.
Sandra Bullock, Kevin Spacey, Oliver Platt, Charles Dutton, Brenda Fricker, Donald Sutherland (kind of a non-part really), Keifer Sutherland, Patrick McGoohan (overdoing it), Chris Cooper, Ashley Judd (wife).
Photographed by Peter Menzies Jr, edited by William Steinkamp.
If the KKK were / are still active in this way, that is rather worrying. The American Civil War is, I think, at the heart of the country's division even today.
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