Proof that someone else watching The Pelican Brief decided that its great unplumbed racial subplots would be worth a Grisham picture
of their own, enter the patently offensive A Time To Kill, underscoring its liberal screed by opening with caricatures
of rednecks at war with caricatures
of black people: basketball hoops on the one
side, Confederate flags on the other;
front - yard barbecues, late - night cross-burnings; marble halls
of justice, raucous Baptist
churches; Kevin Spacey's DA summation on the one
side all superego, Matthew McConaughey's tear - jerking monologue on the other all soul.