john grisham a time to kill first edition

Science Carl Sagan) and Steven Spielberg's Amistad (1997), a fact-based 1839 story about the rebellious African slaves. His following performances were Robert Zemeckis' Contact (1997) with Jodie Foster (the film was finished just before the death of the great astronomer and popularizer of space The actor was soon being hailed as one of the industry's hottest young leading man inspiring comparisons to actor Paul Newman.

Shortly thereafter, moving to L.A., Matthew became a sensation with his performances in two high-profile 1996 films Lone Star (1996), where he portrayed killing suspected sheriff and in the film adaptation of John Grisham's novel A Time to Kill (1996), where he played an idealistic young lawyer opposite Sandra Bullock and Kevin Spacey. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1995), playing a mad bloodthirsty sadistic killer, opposite Renée Zellweger. His character was initially in three scenes but the role grew to more than 300 lines as Linklater encouraged him to do some improvisations. At first, Linklater thought Matthew was too handsome to play the role of a guy chasing high school girls in his coming-of-age drama Dazed and Confused (1993), but cast him after Matthew grew out his hair and mustache. Once, in his hotel bar in Austin, he met the casting director and producer Don Phillips, who introduced him to director Richard Linklater for his next project. He began his acting career in 1991, appearing in student films and commercials in Texas and directed short films as Chicano Chariots (1992). But, when he discovered an inspirational Og Mandino book 'The Greatest Salesman in the World' before one of his final exams, he suddenly knew he had to change his major from law to film.

Back to the States, he attended the University of Texas in Austin, originally wishing to be a lawyer. Showing little interest in his father's oil business, which his two brothers later joined, Matthew was longing for a change of scenery, and spent a year in Australia, washing dishes and shoveling chicken manure. Matthew grew up in Longview, Texas, where he graduated from the local High School (1988).

He is of Irish, Scottish, German, English, and Swedish descent. His father, James Donald McConaughey, was a Mississippi-born gas station owner who ran an oil pipe supply business. His mother, Mary Kathleen (McCabe), is a substitute school teacher originally from New Jersey. American actor and producer Matthew David McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas.

John grisham a time to kill first edition