JUST MERCY (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Michael B. Jordan (Black Panther), Jamie Foxx (Ray), Brie Larson (Room), Rob Morgan (Brawl in Cell Block 99), Tim Blake Nelson (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs), Rafe Spall (Life of Pi), O’Shea Jackson Jr. (Straight Outta Compton), Lindsay Ayliffe (Scatter), C.J. LeBlanc (Southern Fury), Ron Clinton Smith (Life As We Know It), Dominic Bogart (The Birth of a Nation), Hayes Mercure (Dracano), Karan Kendrick (The Hate U Give), Kirk Bovill (Vice), Terence Rosemore (Demonic), Darrell Britt-Gibson (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Destin Daniel Cretton (Short Term 12), director, writer; Andrew Lanham (The Glass Castle), writer; Asher Goldstein (Short Term 12) and Gil Netter (Life of Pi), producers; Joel P. West (Grandma), composer; Brett Pawlak (Instant Family), cinematographer; Nat Sanders (Moonlight), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Young lawyer Bryan Stevenson (Jordan) takes on the case of Walter McMillian (Foxx), who has been wrongfully imprisoned for murdering a white woman…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

The early career of world-renowned civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson is documented in this compelling drama, which sees Michael B. Jordan play the man himself at an early point in his career.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 17TH JANUARY 2020

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