Synopsis
Just Mercy (2019) is a courtroom drama directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, and you can watch it online on iFILM. It follows attorney Bryan Stevenson, who moves to Alabama to take on cases nobody else would touch.
Michael B. Jordan plays Stevenson, a Harvard law graduate who sets up a practice for death-row inmates too poor to afford real representation. His toughest client is Walter McMillian, played by Jamie Foxx, a Black pulpwood worker condemned to die on the word of a single unreliable witness. The physical evidence points the other way. The town's police, its prosecutor, and its history do not. Brie Larson appears as Eva Ansley, the advocate who keeps the small operation running.
The film draws on Stevenson's own memoir and his work with the Equal Justice Initiative. Cretton refuses easy sentiment, letting the facts of the case carry the weight, which makes the ending land hard. Stream Just Mercy (2019) online on iFILM.
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