This powerful movie is based on the true story of a lawyer fighting to save an innocent man from death row in Alabama. Jamie Foxx is terrific as the felon Walter McMillan. Michael B. Jordan plays the earnest lawyer Bryan Stevenson and Brie Larson is an activist. As I recall, though, it's overly long at 2:17.
Director Destin Daniel Cretton co-wrote the screenplay with Andrew Lanham, adapted from the 2014 memoir Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by the real Bryan Stevenson.
I'm listening to the nice music by Joel P. West on Apple Music and I see that it's also available on Spotify.
Foxx was last blogged for White House Down, a 2013 movie which I published out of order, after his 2017 appearance in Baby Driver; Jordan for Black Panther; and Larson, Cretton, Lanham, and West for The Glass Castle.
Rotten Tomatoes' critics are liking it with an average of 83% and its audiences are loving with a near-perfect 99. We saw it January 19 and its streaming debut is set for March 10, 2020.
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