Just Mercy
2020 - ENGLISH - MOVIE
Drama
Biography
Crime
Bryan Stevenson establishes the Equal Justice Initiative to defend impoverished individuals without legal representation, focusing on addressing the disproportionately high conviction and incarceration rates of African Americans in Alabama and nationwide; when Stevenson discovers evidence proving the innocence of Walter McMillian, who was wrongly convicted based on false testimony, he faces threats and intimidation but perseveres, eventually securing McMillians retrial and release, continuing his fight for justice and helping another inmate, Anthony Ray Hinton, gain freedom. Just Mercy is a 2020 American English-language Drama Biography movie featuring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Rob Morgan, Tim Blake Nelson, Rafe Spall, Brie Larson and Brenda F. Williams. The movie is inspired from Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson. Endeavor Content in association with One Community, Participant Media, Macro Media, Gil Netter Productions and Outlier Society. were the production houses involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Gil Netter. The movie is directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. Warner Bros. Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the movie. Just Mercy was released on 17th January 2020 and takes a screen time of 137 minutes. The Film was successful at box office. Just Mercy was made on a budget of $25 million and it was a super hit at box office gross of $50 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Destin Daniel Cretton and Andrew Lanham. Cinematography was done by Brett Pawlak and editing by Nat Sanders. The music was composed by Joel P. West.
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