World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.
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How Real Life Inspired and Informed 'Just Mercy'
How Real Life Inspired and Informed 'Just Mercy'
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- TriviaOn January 6, 2020, Microsoft Corporation rented out 32 AMC Cinemas across the US and offered paid time off and movie tickets to all US employees to attend a private screening of Just Mercy.
- GoofsOne cuff comes off when John McMillian is taken away in handcuffs by two policemen in court.
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Bryan Stevenson: I came out of law school with grand ideas in my mind about how to change the world. But Mr. McMillian made me realize we can't change the world with only ideas in our minds. We need conviction in our hearts. this man taught me how to stay hopeful, because I now know that hopelessness is the enemy of justice. Hope allows us to push for word, even when the truth is distorted by the people in power. It allows us to stand when they tell us to sit down, and to speak when they say be quiet.
- ConnectionsFeatured in CTV News at Six Toronto: Episode dated 6 September 2019 (2019)
- SoundtracksOde to Billie Joe
Written by Bobbie Gentry
Performed by Martha & The Vandellas (as Martha Reeves & The Vandellas)
Courtesy of Motown Records
Under license from with Universal Music Enterprises
There is nothing substandard here. Proper screenwriting, fine acting, fairly delivered social commentary.
But also, there is nothing new. Every single aspect of this film had already made its way into cinema, and with even sharper tones. To Kill A Mockingbird (which is cited many times in the movie itself) aside, we got The Green Mile as an unforgettable fiction on racism-infused violations of lives and the horros of murder-by-state, a.k.a. Capital punishment. We saw Dead Man Walking, we saw Monsters' Ball. We not only know well the pillars on which this film was erected, but we also literally witnessed cinematic greatness thanks to several scenes that covered the transformations of people who in one way or another took part in or witnessed prison executions.
I'm not arguing that this story was not worth being told on the screen. What I don't get is why they shot it almost like a high quality TV movie, and never bothered come up with edgier moments.
I have this gut feeling that, those who are impressed by this movie have missed out on almost a dozen high-caliber, tough-to-swallow, groundbraking movies from the past decades.
Not a 6, not an 8, a solid and straight 7. That's it.
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- Jan 4, 2022
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- Also known as
- Lòng Nhân Từ
- Filming locations
- Conyers, Georgia, USA(Road Block)
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Box office
- Budget
- $25,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $36,001,502
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $107,858
- Dec 29, 2019
- Gross worldwide
- $50,901,502
- Runtime2 hours 17 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1