A time to kill

Resource Information

The work A time to kill represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

A time to kill

Statement of responsibility

Warner Bros. presents ; in association with Regency Enterprises ; an Arnon Milchan production ; a Joel Schumacher film ; screenplay by Akiva Goldsman ; produced by Arnon Milchan, Michael Nathanson, Hunt Lowry and John Grisham ; directed by Joel Schumacher

Creator

• Time to kill (Motion picture)

Contributor

• Judd, Ashley.
• Jackson, Samuel L.
• Lowry, Hunt.
• Grisham, John
• McConaughey, Matthew, 1969-
• Goldsman, Akiva
• Milchan, Arnon
• Goldenthal, Elliot.
• Nathanson, Michael, (Michael G.)
• Fricker, Brenda.
• Dutton, Charles S.
• Platt, Oliver.
• Schumacher, Joel, 1939-2020.
• Bullock, Sandra.
• Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- )
• Spacey, Kevin.
• Regency Enterprises
• Sutherland, Donald, 1935-

Actor

• Judd, Ashley.
• Dutton, Charles S.
• Platt, Oliver.
• Fricker, Brenda.
• Bullock, Sandra.
• Spacey, Kevin.
• Sutherland, Donald, 1935-
• Jackson, Samuel L.
• McConaughey, Matthew, 1969-

Composer

• Goldenthal, Elliot.

Director

• Schumacher, Joel, 1939-2020.

Producer

• Lowry, Hunt.
• Milchan, Arnon
• Nathanson, Michael, (Michael G.)

Screenwriter

• Goldsman, Akiva

Subject

• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Feature films
• Feature films -- United States
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations
• Grisham, John
• Grisham, John -- Film and video adaptations
• Legal films
• Legal films
• Mississippi
• Mississippi -- Race relations -- Drama
• Murder
• Murder -- Mississippi -- Drama
• Race relations
• Racism
• Racism -- Mississippi -- Drama
• Social problem films
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Trials (Murder)
• Trials (Murder) -- Mississippi -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Crime films
• DVD-Video discs
• Detective and mystery films
• Drama
• Feature films

Genre

• Social problem films
• Crime films
• DVD-Video discs
• Detective and mystery films
• Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations
• Film and video adaptations
• Legal films
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• fre
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng
• eng

Summary

A small-town lawyer is hired to defend an African American man who is accused of killing the white men who raped his young daughter

Awards note

• ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards, 1997: Top box office films (Elliot Goldenthal)
• Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, 1997: Favorite actress - suspense (Sandra Bullock)
• Image Awards, 1987: Outstanding supporting actor in a motion picture (Samuel L. Jackson)
• MTV Movie Awards, 1997: Best breakthrough performance (Matthew McConaughey)

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Photographer, Peter Menzies, Jr. ; editor, William Steinkamp ; music, Elliot Goldenthal

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R for violence and some graphic language

Language note

Soundtrack in English and French with optional subtitles in English, French and Spanish; closed-captioned in English

LC call number

PN1995.9.D4

LC item number

T544 1997

PerformerNote

Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey, Kevin Spacey, Brenda Fricker, Oliver Platt, Charles S. Dutton, Ashley Judd, Patrick McGoohan, Donald Sutherland

Runtime

150

Technique

live action