I’m not sure that The Client will hold up if I were to rewatch it and it’s not really relevant to do so these days. As a kid I sort of fantasized about being an actor and always imagined it was playing the lead role in The Client that would have been some sort of breakthrough performance for me. Dorky admission, that.

I will stick up for a couple of other Schumacher films, Falling Down and I guess Batman Forever, not B&R though. Sometimes hacks make good movies too, I guess.

A Time To Kill’s lasting power has a lot to do with Samuel L. Jackson’s performance being his second-most-quoted of the 90s (people having amusingly forgotten that it was ATTK, and not Dazed & Confused, that made Matthew McConaughey famous in the first place) and I guess because of the moral dilemma it brings up, which I always thought was kind of flimsy, but I was considering both rewatching the film and reading the book, because I’ve never really read Grisham.