Just Mercy
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Biopic, Drama
137 min
| 13 L P V
This is about all of us. After graduating from Harvard, Bryan has his pick of lucrative jobs. Instead, he heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or who were not afforded proper representation, with the support of local advocate Eva Ansley.
One of his first, and most incendiary, cases is that of Walter McMillian, who, in 1987, was sentenced to die for the notorious murder of an 18-year-old girl, despite a preponderance of evidence proving his innocence and the fact that the only testimony against him came from a criminal with a motive to lie. In the years that follow, Bryan becomes embroiled in a labyrinth of legal and political maneuverings and overt and unabashed racism as he fights for Walter, and others like him, with the odds—and the system—stacked against them.
Cast
Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Brie Larson
Directed by
Destin Daniel Cretton
Music
Joel P. West
Screenplay
Destin Daniel Cretton, Andrew Lanham