Marshall

[Plays Nov. 7 at 7 p.m. at North Community High School, Door 18, 1500 James Avenue North in Minneapolis as part of the MSP Film Society's First Thursday Films in partnership with the Capri Theater and the Minnesota Historical Society; for information, log on to info@mspfilm.org or call 612/331-7563.]
After African-American chauffeur Joseph Spell (Sterling K. Brown) is arrested for allegedly raping and the attempted murder of a well-to-do, neglected white housewife (Kate Hudson) in Bridgeport, Conn., who is married to an abusive husband (Jeremy Bobb), in this engaging, factually based, well-acted, star-dotted (Dan Stevens, Sophia Bush, Jussie Smollett, and Jeffery DeMunn), 118-minute, 2017 film that follows the early trial of the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, smart, no-nonsense NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall (Chadwick Boseman) recruits reluctant, Jewish, noncriminal defense attorney Sam Friedman (Josh Gad) to defend the accused rapist in this difficult, controversial case in front of a hard-nosed judge (Jams Cromwell) in 1941.
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