Just Mercy

Terrific acting and pacing dominate this engaging, intense, gut-wrenching, factually based, ire-producing, thought-provoking, well-written, star-studded (Tim Blake Nelson, Rafe Spall, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Rob Morgan, and Michael Harding), 136-minute film based on Bryan Stevenson's memoir Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption in which Harvard-educated, greenhorn lawyer Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) joins Alabama advocate Eva Ansley (Brie Larson) and the Equal Rights Initiative to fight for the exoneration and freedom of wrongly accused prisoners on death row and to take on in 1992 the blatantly trumped up case of railroaded, self-employed pulpwood contractor Walter McMillian (Jamie Foxx), who is supported by his devoted wife (Karan Kendrick), three kids (C. J. LeBlanc, et al.), and a multitude of relatives and friends, after he was sentenced to be electrocuted for the heinous murder of an 18-year-old white girl at a dry cleaners in 1987.
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