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.