Just Mercy
This 2019 film follows Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan), a graduate from Harvard Law who travels to Alabama to represent those who cannot afford their own lawyers. He begins representing Walter McMillian (Jamie Foxx), a Black man who has been sentenced to death row for a crime he didn’t commit. It is based on a true story that occurred in 1989, written about in Stevenson’s memoir of the same name.
Runtime: 137 minutes
Rated PG-13 (thematic content including some racial epithets)
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