137 mins |
Rated
M (Adult themes)
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton
Starring Rafe Spall, Jamie Foxx, Michael B. Jordan, Brie Larson, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Tim Blake Nelson
Civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) tries to free an innocent man (Jamie Foxx) from death row in this biopic based on Stevenson's memoir.
Bryan Stevenson, a Harvard law graduate, turns his back on more lucrative work, returning south to help prisoners in Alabama. With the help of Eva Ansley, a local equally committed to prisoner's rights, he takes on the most challenging of cases — death row inmates. It's 1989, but walking into the prison in Alabama is like stepping back into the South before Civil Rights. Walter McMillian (Foxx) was arrested for killing a white woman, pushed through a shoddy trial, then deposited on death row, where he joined other desperate men who may or may not have committed the crimes that landed them there. The local authorities are actively indifferent to the truth, but Stevenson and Ansley are determined to hold the justice system accountable.
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Civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) tries to free an innocent man (Jamie Foxx) from death row in this biopic based on Stevenson's memoir.
Bryan Stevenson, a Harvard law graduate, turns his back on more lucrative work, returning south to help prisoners in Alabama. With the help of Eva Ansley, a local equally committed to prisoner's rights, he takes on the most challenging of cases — death row inmates. It's 1989, but walking into the prison in Alabama is like stepping back into the South before Civil Rights. Walter McMillian (Foxx) was arrested for killing a white woman, pushed through a shoddy trial, then deposited on death row, where he joined other desperate men who may or may not have committed the crimes that landed them there. The local authorities are actively indifferent to the truth, but Stevenson and Ansley are determined to hold the justice system accountable.