
A Time to Kill(1996)
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.


“Time is running out.”
Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.

Chris O'Donnell
Adam Hall

Gene Hackman
Sam Cayhall

Faye Dunaway
Lee Cayhall Bowen

Robert Prosky
E. Garner Goodman

Lela Rochon
Nora Stark

Bo Jackson
Sgt. Clyde Packer

Millie Perkins
Ruth Kramer

David Marshall Grant
Gov. David McAllister

Raymond J. Barry
Rollie Wedge

Nicholas Pryor
Judge Flynn F. Slattery
The Chamber is a crime, drama film released in 1996 exploring themes of ku klux klan, doomed man, legal drama. Directed by James Foley, it stars Chris O'Donnell, Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway. Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.
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