Johnson, Matthew McConaughey, Mike McLaren, Mike Pniewski, Mildred J. Thomas, Linda Calvin Johnson, Lorraine Middleton, Lukas Cain, M. Crumley Jr., Jerry Hunt, Jim Ritchie, Joe Bullen, Joe Seneca, John Diehl, Jonathan Hadary, Kevin Spacey, Kiefer Sutherland, Kim Hendrix, Kurtwood Smith, LaConte McGrew, Leonard L. Floyd, Howard Ballou, Jackie Stewart, James M. Hodges, Devin Lloyd, Donald Sutherland, Doug Hutchison, Elizabeth Omilami, Graham Timbes, Greg Lauren, Helen E. Dutton, Chris Cooper, Danny Nelson, Darrin Mitchell, David Brian Williams, David U. Beamon, Brenda Fricker, Byron Jennings, Charles S. Its a very good movie.Cast: Alexandra Kyle, Alice Julius-Scott, Andy Stahl, Anthony Heald, Ashley Judd, Benjamin Mouton, Beth Grant, Bettina Rose, Brance H. Most important is that (for me) it worked. Also the plot is a bit contrived (but true to the novel). Bullock, there was a bit of woodeness to the "folk" in this small southern town. Which raises the main weakness of the movie, as good as it was, having read the book, I could not help being reminded that most of the characters were in fact, actors in a movie. Although the rest of the acting was very good, I felt she was the most believable. I think the acting of the principals was very good, and I found especially for Sandra Bullock as Ellen Roark - who was the most believable character. And by the end I understood that the screenwriter had very skillfully budgeted his (limited) screen time for the most important parts of the movie, where it is well spent. But by the 3rd quarter of the movie this was the last thought in my mind. From the beginning I was thinking "they left out a whole mess of details." I was irritated that they did not develop the characters better like in the book. I was very much drawn into the book, and thought that it would be hard to get the same feeling out in a movie. Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Can you see her? Her raped, beaten, broken body soaked in their urine, soaked in their semen, soaked in her blood, left to die. And she drops some thirty feet down to the creek bottom below. So they pick her up, throw her in the back of the truck and drive out to Foggy Creek Bridge. It snaps and she falls back to the earth. Imagine the noose going tight around her neck and with a sudden blinding jerk she's pulled into the air and her feet and legs go kicking. They throw them so hard that it tears the flesh all the way to her bones. They start throwing full beer cans at her. And when they're done, after they've killed her tiny womb, murdered any chance for her to have children, to have life beyond her own, they decide to use her for target practice. First one, then the other, raping her, shattering everything innocent and pure with a vicious thrust in a fog of drunken breath and sweat. They drag her into a nearby field and they tie her up and they rip her clothes from her body. This is a story about a little girl walking home from the grocery store one sunny afternoon. I'm going to ask you all to close your eyes while I tell you the story. Jake Tyler Brigance: I want to tell you a story.
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