Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 137 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
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.
- death penalty
- judge
- innocence
- based on true story
- lawyer
- electric chair
- racism
- execution
- justice
- humiliation
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Michael B. Jordan
Bryan Stevenson
Brie Larson
Eva Ansley
Jamie Foxx
Walter McMillian
O'Shea Jackson Jr.
Anthony Ray Hinton
- Rafe Spall — Tommy Champan
- Rob Morgan — Herbert Richardson
- Tim Blake Nelson — Ralph Myers
- Rhoda Griffis — Judge Pamela Bachab
- J. Alphonse Nicholson — Henry Davis
- Karan Kendrick — Minnie McMillian
- Hayes Mercure — Jeremy Doss
- Lindsay Ayliffe — Judge Foster
- Dominic Bogart — Doug Ansley
- Tim Hooper — Charles Cooper, Office Manager
- Andrene Ward-Hammond — Brenda
- Directed
- Destin Daniel Cretton
- Written
- Destin Daniel Cretton, Andrew Lanham
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 2,531 ratings
- Studio
- Netter Productions, Outlier Society, Endeavor Content, MACRO, One Community, Participant
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
