No it isn't...
When two white supremacists Pete Willard (Doug Hutchison) and Billy Ray Cobb (Nicky Katt) brutally rape Tonya Hailey (RaéVen Kelly), a 10-year-old black girl in rural Canton, Mississippi, her distraught father Carl Lee (Samuel L. Jackson), figuring the boys will simply be set free due to the deep-seated racism in the Mississippi Delta area, takes justice into his own hands, shoots Willard and Cobb, and hires Jake Brigance (Matthew McConaughey), a young white lawyer, to defend him against the charge of murder. Aided by his former law professor Lucien Wilbanks (Donald Sutherland), fellow attorney Harry Rex Vonner (Oliver Platt), and law student Ellen Roark (Sandra Bullock) from the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) at Oxford, MS, Brigance is hindered by tough D.A. Rufus Buckley (Kevin Spacey) and a rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan.
Yes. The film is based on the 1989 novel A Time to Kill by American author John Grisham, who claims to have gotten the idea in 1984 when he overheard a 12-year-old white girl telling the court how she and her sister were raped and beaten by a black man. Grisham swapped races, and added to it the fictional situation in which the girl's father subsequently murdered her assailants. The novel was adapted for the screen by American filmmaker Akiva Goldsman.
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