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Synopsis: In Canton, Mississippi, 10-year-old Tonya Hailey is viciously brutalized by two white racist rednecks -- James Louis "Pete" Willard and Billy Ray Cobb. Almost immediately after Tonya is found and rushed to a hospital, Pete and Billy Ray are found at a roadside bar, where they had been bragging about what they did to Tonya. Tonya's understandably distraught and enraged father, Carl Lee Hailey, remembers a case from a year ago, when four white men raped an African-American girl in a nearby town, and got acquitted. Carl is determined to not let that happen in this case. While deputy Dwayne Powell Looney is escorting Pete and Billy Ray up a flight of stairs to a court room, Carl emerges from the building's basement with an assault rifle, and he kills Pete and Billy Ray for what they did to Tonya. Carl is later arrested at his house by African-American sheriff Ozzie Walls, and Carl is scheduled to be placed on trial. Despite the efforts of the NAACP and local African-American leaders to per
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Joel Schumacher
Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey
Production: Warner Home Video
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 7 wins & 11 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
54
Rotten Tomatoes:
65%
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Year:
1996
149 min
5,665 Views

...they use her for target practice.

So they start throwing

full beer cans at her.

They throw them so hard...

...that it tears the flesh

all the way to her bones.

Then they urinate on her.

Now comes the hanging.

They have a rope.

They tie a noose.

Imagine the noose coiling

tight around her neck...

...and a sudden blinding jerk.

She's pulled into the air

and her feet go kicking....

They don't find the ground.

The hanging branch...

...isn't strong enough.

It snaps and she falls...

...back to earth.

So they pick her up...

...throw her in the back...

...drive to Foggy Creek Bridge...

...pitch her over.

And she drops some 30 feet...

...down to the creek bottom.

Can you see her?

Her raped...

...beaten...

...broken body...

...soaked in their urine...

...soaked in their semen...

...soaked in her blood...

...left to die.

Can you see her?

I want you to picture...

...that little girl....

Now, imagine she's white.

The defense rests.

Innocent!

Innocent! He's innocent!

Innocent?!

We won! We won!

Ellen, we won! Aren't you happy?!

My God, Ellen, you have to be happy!

He's coming home.

That was...

That was...

I'm one of the bad guys, remember?

Freddie Lee Cobb!

We got something to talk about.

Hastings, you belong

over there with them.

Get over.

Congratulations, counselor.

Thank you.

Look.

Hello.

This is Ms. Hailey. This is Hannah.

She's so pretty.

Brought you some peach cobbler.

Come on in. Come in.

This is my daughter, Tonya.

Nice to meet you.

Just thought our kids

could play together.

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Akiva Goldsman

Akiva J. Goldsman (born July 7, 1962) is an American film and television writer, director, and producer. He received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the 2001 film, A Beautiful Mind, which also won the Oscar for Best Picture. more…

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