If ever there was a film to encapsulate racial tension this is it!! But this is not a film about black people and white pepole and how the react to a sick and humiliating act, no this is a HUMAN interest film , a lesson to us all, to every human being. this is a film about family and friends but above all it's about love and how it conquers everything even the law!

i have to agree with vultures wright up this film, it is in my top ten all time greats specialy when the lawyer sums up at the end of the trial and for the record i am white and i would have done the same as the father in this film,i cant watch it because the absolute ignorance of the 2 mens (well not men but you no what i mean) familys and the people around them and how thay try to defend them, makes me scream with rage and to think that there are people out there who still think this way. having said that i do think we are going to far the other way now days but thats antoher story watch this film it will leave you in tears and scraming obsenaties at all the injustice.

The plot is about racial prejudice and the trial of a negro who murders the two rednecks who raped his daughter. The plot and the performances from everyone are sublime. Not to be missed.