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| Michael B. Jordan is Attorney Bryan Stevensen |
Welcome to Alabama, 1987, where a black man has as little chance of finding justice as he does of winning the lottery and getting hit by lightening on the same day.
Enter Bryan Stevensen, a recent Harvard Law School grad, who's devoting his career to defending death-penalty inmates who were wrongly condemned. Walter McMillian (Jaime Foxx) is one of his first clients and if ever there was a trumped up case, this is it.
Still, don't expect an easy road for Stevensen. Racist local law enforcers are happy with the status quo. To them McMillian's guilt or innocence is as important as a flea in a haystack. As long as someone was found guilty of murdering an 18-year-old white girl, it's all good to them.
A true story, based on a book written by Stevensen, the film, also starring Brie Larson, wowed the Movie Slut. Sure, she's seen similar plots, but none as well executed (excuse the pun) as Just Mercy.
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