Watched A Time to Kill again last night and discovered again how one can keep making new discoveries upon re-watching a good movie. Forget if I'd noticed before that Sutherland, father and son, were both in this production--remarkably on opposite sides of the race divide. As Canadians I'd be surprised if either had strong feelings either way on this particular issue.
However I'd never before considered how important to Jake's summation at the trial were his wife's words to him when she visited him the night before and acknowledged that she understood that his motivation for taking this case was the fact that he'd have done the same as his defendant had it been his own daughter so treated. The final direction, of course came from his client when he was told that he'd been hired over the civil rights professionals because he thought like a white cracker.
It's always interesting discovering continuity problems in movies and TV Shows. This evening a bike ride that begins on a day with heavy overcast skies and water-covered roads continues a few frames and curves later to dry roads and a cerulean blue sky, then reverts to clouds and rain seconds later. In the closing frames of A Time to Kill Jake's wife shows up at the victory party with a home-baked peach cobbler; given that we saw her home burned to the ground, where did she bake it?
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