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Clemency
Why this pick
Its death-row setting shares Just Mercy’s moral urgency, but approaches the system through quiet, intimate emotional pressure and an unsparing focus on everyone it damages.
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MOVIE2019 2h 17m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Bryan Stevenson, a gifted young lawyer, fights for the life of Walter McMillan, a black man wrongly accused of murder, during his six years on death row.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
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
Karan Kendrick
Minnie McMillian