A Time to Kill

…the thriller The Net (1995); A Time to Kill (1996), based on the legal novel of the same name by best-selling author John Grisham; and In Love and War (1996), a drama about Ernest Hemingway’s wartime romance that inspired his novel A Farewell to Arms (1929).

He appeared in A Time to Kill (1996), based on a novel by John Grisham; in Alfonso Cuarón’s Great Expectations (1998), loosely adapted from Charles Dickens’s novel; and in Robert Redford’s The Horse Whisperer (1998). In addition, he played the miner father of an aspiring

…Hard with a Vengeance (1995), A Time to Kill (1996), The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), Tarantino’s Jackie Brown (1997), The Negotiator (1998), and Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace (1999), as Mace Windu. He reprised that role in Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones (2002) and

…had raped his daughter in A Time to Kill (1996), based on John Grisham’s novel of the same name. He jousted romantically and philosophically with Jodie Foster in Contact (1997), based on Carl Sagan’s novel about communication with aliens, and he heisted banks as one of the titular brothers in…

…A Time to Kill (1989; film 1996), which deals with the legal, social, and moral repercussions when a Mississippi Black man is tried for the murder of two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter. Despite good reviews for its skillfully crafted dialogue and sense of place, the novel failed…

…Men (1992), Freeway (1996), and A Time to Kill (1996). He also performed with his mother onstage in The Glass Menagerie in 1996.