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Just Mercy.

Summary: A powerful and thought-provoking true story, "Just Mercy" follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson (Jordan) and his history-making battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard, Bryan had 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 (Larson). One of his first, and most incendiary, cases is that of Walter McMillian (Foxx), 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.

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  • Physical Description: 1 streaming video file (136 min.) : digital, sound, color
    remote
  • Publisher: [Los Angeles, California] : Warner Brothers, [2019]
  • Distributor: [Vaughan, Ontario] : Criterion Pictures, [date of distribution not identified]

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Creation/Production Credits Note: Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton.
Participant or Performer Note: Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Brie Larson, Rob Morgan, Tim Blake Nelson, Rafe Spall, O'Shea Jackson Jr, Karan Kendrick.
Target Audience Note:
MPAA rating: PG-13; for thematic content including some racial epithets.
System Details Note:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject: Stevenson, Bryan -- Drama
McMillian, Walter -- Drama
Legal drama
False imprisonment -- Drama
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Drama
Genre: Crime films.
Legal films.
Biographical films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Streaming video.

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