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Just Mercy
The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.
2019 · Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton · 137 min · Drama · Crime · History · 30 frames
Tagline
Every generation has its hero. Meet ours.
Crew
- Screenplay: Andrew Lanham, Destin Daniel Cretton
- Cinematography: Brett Pawlak
- Edited by: Nat Sanders
- Music: Joel P. West
- Production design: Sharon Seymour
- Produced by: Michael B. Jordan, Gil Netter, Asher Goldstein
Cast
- Michael B. Jordan as Bryan Stevenson
- Brie Larson as Eva Ansley
- Jamie Foxx as Walter McMillian
- O'Shea Jackson Jr. as Anthony Ray Hinton
- Rafe Spall as Tommy Champan
- Rob Morgan as Herbert Richardson
- Tim Blake Nelson as Ralph Myers
- Rhoda Griffis as Judge Pamela Bachab
- J. Alphonse Nicholson as Henry Davis
- Karan Kendrick as Minnie McMillian
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Netter Productions, Outlier Society, Endeavor Content, MACRO
- Budget: $25,000,000
- Box office: $50,401,502
- Themes: death penalty, judge, innocence, based on true story, lawyer, electric chair, racism, execution, justice, true crime
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