A very young McConaughey nails the closing statement in this John Grisham drama about a father (Samuel L. Jackson) who kills the men who raped his daughter. He begins with: "I had a great summation all worked out, full of some sharp lawyering. But I’m not going to read it… You see, in all this legal maneuvering, something has gotten lost — and that something is the truth" and ending with the powerful… "now imagine she’s white." Watch the whole heart-tugging speech here.
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