so many great actor and so little worth watch . but with a script that miss so much of what make the book special and i do not hold it against anyone on screen . though flawed and the book be one of grisham only that i truly liked and especially how it capture the flavor of a deep south small town and a slightly different world to a coastal urbanite such a myself . i also love the matter of factness and naturalness of what occur in the book . in the movie character be give a nobility of personality that seem so stilted . the villain and foil be flat and 1 dimensional . but a with so much of joel schumacher work and genuineness and authenticity be conspicuously absent and and every point must be deliver via sledgehammer to the midsection . so preachy and stilted and and superficial about so horrendous a tragedy and i wish someone would do a remake and get the story a little more right .