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Best of Enemies, The After a fire closes the African-American school in Durham, N.C., in 1971 and a NAACP leader (Babou Ceesay) holds a two-week summit to decide whether to integrate schools in this powerful, factually based, inspirational, well-acted, educational, star-studded (Nick Searcy, Wes Bentley, Bruce McGill, Caitlin Mehner, and John Gallagher Jr.), 133-minute film based on Osha Gray Davidson's novel The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South, feisty, tenacious African-American civil rights and fair-housing activist Ann Atwater (Taraji P. Henson) with a teenage daughter (Nádej Kyla Bailey) and Klu Klux Klan leader and gas station owner C.P. Ellis (Sam Rockwell), who has a wife (Anne Heche) and three children (McKenzie Applegate, Brody Rose, and Carson Holmes), eventually and surprisingly find themselves developing a friendship while coming together on common ground on the issue of school integration.   Redhead: Year: 2019 Rating:  PG-13 View Best of Enemies, The on the Internet Movie Database