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- The film is based on Stevenson’s autobiography, “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption.” Cretton and Lanham, as noted, base most of the film version on true-life events, with some small dramatization, but most of what occurs in the film is what actually occurred in real life.
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Jan 19, 2020 · The crux of Just Mercy centers around Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) fighting to bring Walter McMillian (Jamie Foxx) out of death row for a murder conviction he firmly believes — and later...
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- Walter Mcmillian's Arrest
- Bryan Stevenson's Investigation
- The Case and The Aftermath
The murder of Ronda Morrison sent outrage, fear, and trepidation across the small community of Monroeville, Alabama. After months of searching for answers, police officials were unable to find any leads as to who the culprit was, and whether or not they were going to strike again. With nothing to go and pressure mounting to pin the murder on someon...
As depicted in Just Mercy, Walter McMillain's case was among the first – and the most important – of attorney Bryan Stevenson's career. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1985, nearly a year before Morrison's murder (an inaccuracy in the film's timeline), Stevenson moved first to Atlanta, Georgia and then to Montgomery, where he helped for...
As seen in Just Mercy, once McMillain was granted a court case in front of unbiased eyes, the judicial process did not take long. In addition to a 60 Minutes segment bringing national attention to the case, Stevenson unearthed a taped conversation between Meyers and the police in which the convict complained about being forced to implicate McMillia...
Dec 25, 2019 · Just Mercy, director Destin Daniel Cretton’s adaptation of Bryan Stevenson’s 2014 memoir, is about the exoneration of Walter McMillian, a black man who spent nearly six years on Alabama’s...
- Matthew Dessem
Just Mercy is a 2019 American biographical legal drama film co-written and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and starring Michael B. Jordan as Bryan Stevenson, Jamie Foxx as Walter McMillian, Rob Morgan, Tim Blake Nelson, Rafe Spall, and Brie Larson.
Jan 2, 2020 · The Just Mercy true story reveals that the real Bryan Stevenson took the case in 1988, the year of McMillian's murder conviction. Michael B. Jordan depicts Stevenson in the movie, while Jamie Foxx plays McMillian.
Dec 23, 2019 · Adapting Stevenson’s memoir, Cretton and his co-writer Andrew Lanham touch upon activists for Death Row prisoners, the value of White lives vs. Black lives, veterans whose PTSD is left unchecked, corrupt law officials, justice system imbalances and, in a subplot anchored by Tim Blake Nelson, the idea that poor people are victimized by law enforc...
Sep 7, 2019 · Just Mercylargely concerns one of Stevenson’s early cases, that of Walter Macmillan, an Alabama man convicted of murdering an 18-year-old white woman in the 1980s based on evidence so absurdly...
