Movie
Just Mercy
Overview
The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.
Details
- Release date
- 2019-12-25
- Runtime
- 137 min
- Genres
- Drama, Crime, History
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Netter Productions, Outlier Society, Endeavor Content, MACRO, One Community, Participant, Warner Bros. Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Michael B. Jordan as Bryan Stevenson
- Brie Larson as Eva Ansley
- Jamie Foxx as Walter McMillian
- O'Shea Jackson Jr. as Anthony Ray Hinton
- Rafe Spall as Tommy Champan
- Rob Morgan as Herbert Richardson
- Tim Blake Nelson as Ralph Myers
- Rhoda Griffis as Judge Pamela Bachab
- J. Alphonse Nicholson as Henry Davis
- Karan Kendrick as Minnie McMillian
- Hayes Mercure as Jeremy Doss
- Lindsay Ayliffe as Judge Foster
Crew
- Destin Daniel Cretton - Director
- Andrew Lanham - Screenplay
- Destin Daniel Cretton - Screenplay
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