
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.


A modern, gothic tale of crime and redemption about an aging police officer from a small Ontario Mennonite town who hides a violent past until a local murder upsets the calm of his newly reformed life.

Peter Stormare
Walter

Martha Plimpton
Sam

Jill Hennessy
Rita

Ari Cohen
Washington

Jackie Burroughs
Olive

Stephen Eric McIntyre
Steve
Alexandria Benoit
Sarah

Aaron Poole
Jim

Trent McMullen
Officer Kevin

Stuart Hughes
Billy
Small Town Murder Songs is a thriller, crime, drama film released in 2010 exploring themes of mennonites, rape and murder, murderer, desolation, frightened. Directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly, it stars Peter Stormare, Martha Plimpton, Jill Hennessy. A modern, gothic tale of crime and redemption about an aging police officer from a small Ontario Mennonite town who hides a violent past until a local murder upsets the calm of his newly reformed life.
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