Free State of Jones

When rebellious, disillusioned, Mississippi farmer turned Union soldier Newt Knight (Matthew McConaughey) abandons his military duties after the death of his teenage son (Jacob Lofland) during the Civil War in 1862 and returns home to his wife (Keri Russell) and infant son in this gut-wrenching, riveting, well-acted, factually based, 139-,minute film, he ends up hiding in the swamps with other soldiers (Sean Bridgers, Christopher Berry, Dane Rhodes, et al.) and slaves (Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali, Donald Watkins, Troy Hogan, et al.) whom he rallies together to fight the Confederate Army (Wayne Pére, et al.) and to secede Jones County from the Confederacy.
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