Storyline
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.
Directors
Cast
Jamie Foxx, Tim Blake Nelson, Rhoda Griffis, Rafe Spall, Brie Larson, Michael B. Jordan, John Lacy, Michael Harding, Elizabeth Becka, Steve Coulter, Karan Kendrick, Dominic Bogart, Ron Clinton Smith, Terence Rosemore, Kirk Bovill, Tonea Stewart, Lindsay Ayliffe, Andrene Ward-Hammond, Mary Kraft, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Rob Morgan, Denitra Isler, C.J. LeBlanc, Drew Scheid, J. Alphonse Nicholson, Hayes Mercure, Drew Scheid, Tim Hooper, Kelly Mumme, Mallory Hoff
Trailer
Reviews
75
The Film Stage
It is impossible to walk away from Just Mercy unmoved. ... Yet Destin Daniel Cretton’s third feature also feels a bit predictable, a bit obvious, and never quite as compelling as one might expect.
75
While the movie runs too long and the message grows thin, it’s a sturdy window into the corruption of the judicial process that can send an innocent black man to death row.
70
A straightforward biopic ... The film's edge is somewhat dulled by respect for its subject, who's drawn here as more hero than man.
70
Although conventional in its approach, the film is a forceful reckoning of a broken legal system.
70
Cretton has made and will make subtler movies, but probably none that will prompt as many mid-screening rounds of applause.
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