DVD
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- CENTRAL: Audiovisual Collection
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Just mercy
Call Number
- DVD DRAMA (CEN, EAS, WSQ)
Languages
In English, French or Spanish, with optional French or Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing, English descriptive audio.
Performers
Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Rob Morgan, Tim Blake Nelson, Rafe Spall, Brie Larson, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Karan Kendrick.
Publication Information
[Burbank, California] : Warner Bros. Entertainment, [2020]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (137 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
MPAA rating: PG-13; thematic content including some racial epithets.
Summary
In this true story, recent Harvard graduate Bryan Stevenson passes up lucrative jobs to defend those wrongly condemned in Alabama. Supported by local advocate Eva Ansley, he quickly picks up the incendiary case of Walter McMillian, a death-row inmate convicted of a notorious murder. Facing a legal and political labyrinth and unabashed racism, Bryan fights for Walter and others like him in a system stacked against them.
Notes
Title from container.
Based on the book by Bryan Stevenson.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2019.
Special feature: Making Mercy.
Subjects
- African American lawyers > Drama.
- African American prisoners > Drama.
- False imprisonment > United States > Drama.
- Judicial error > United States > Drama.
- Criminal justice, Administration of > United States > Drama.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States > Drama.
- Discrimination in capital punishment > United States > Drama.
- Public interest law > United States > Drama.
- Racism > United States > Drama.
- Equal Justice Initiative > Drama.
- Stevenson, Bryan > Drama.
- McMillian, Walter > Drama.
- McMillian, Walter > Trials, litigation, etc. > Drama.