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Sep 2023
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To Kill a Mockingbird vs A Time to Kill:...

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About this episode

We’re back in the courtroom dock to watch another gripping trial and this time it’s in 1996’s A Time to Kill. In Mississippi, a daring young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his ten-year-old daughter. It’s got McConaughey, L.Jackson and Bullock, but does it have Clash star movie potential? Let’s find out…


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