A Time to Kill (DVD, 2009, Canadian French)

In a small southern town in the 1960s a black man awaits trial for murdering the two rednecks who viciously raped his 10-year-old daughter. A young idealistic white lawyer takes up the father's defense and the incendiary case becomes a firestorm of racism and controversy ripping the town apart. Based on John Grisham's bestselling first novel.