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American Violet is a 2008 American drama film directed by Tim Disney and starring Nicole Beharie. The story is based on Regina Kelly, a victim of Texas police drug enforcement tactics.
Apr 15, 2009 · The cops in a small Texas town arrested 40 black people on drug charges in a sweep of a public housing complex. They were working on a tip from a single informant, a former mental patient who had good reason to cooperate with them.
Apr 17, 2009 · American Violet: Directed by Tim Disney. With Nicole Beharie, Tim Blake Nelson, Will Patton, Michael O'Keefe. A single mother struggles to clear her name after being wrongly accused and arrested for dealing drugs in an impoverished Texas town.
Apr 17, 2009 · After an overzealous district attorney's drug bust lands her in jail, single mother Dee Roberts (Nicole Beharie) must face an agonizing choice: Plead guilty and go home a convicted felon, or fight...
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Based on true events in the midst of the 2000 election, AMERICAN VIOLET tells the astonishing story of Dee Roberts (critically hailed newcomer Nicole Beharie), a 24...
"American Violet" tells the powerful and inspiring true story of a young African American woman named Dee Roberts who is unjustly arrested on drug charges in a...
Apr 16, 2009 · Inspired by an NPR story, writer-producer Bill Haney dramatizes the battle of an East Texas woman to reclaim her reputation after a bogus drug arrest....
Oct 13, 2009 · “American Violet,” a fact-based drama that opened the Langston Hughes African American Film Festival here last spring, is about as damning an indictment of good-ole-boy racism as anything the...
Apr 17, 2009 · A young single mother of four living in a small Texas town. Arrested during a drug raid and accused of a crime she didn't commit, Dee goes against the wishes of her mother, Alma, and rejects the plea-bargain that would free her from jail, but brand her as a felon for life.
Apr 17, 2009 · Based on true events during the 2000 election, American Violet tells the astonishing story of Dee Roberts, a 24 year-old African American single mother of four young girls living in a small Texas town tow is barely able to make ends meet.
