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- Walter Mcmillian
- Bryan Stevenson
- Eva Ansley
- Herbert Richardson
- Tom Chapman
- Sheriff Thomas Tate
- The Judges
Walter McMillian’s ordeal is more or less accurately portrayed in Just Mercy: He was arrested in 1987 and charged with the murder of Ronda Morrison, an 18-year-old white woman who was shot in broad daylight at the Monroeville, Alabama dry-cleaning shop where she worked. McMillian was convicted after a trial that lasted only a day and a half. An ove...
Just Mercy follows Stevenson’s self-portrait in his memoir very closely. The real Stevenson, circa 1992, is heavily featured in the 60 Minutessegment above. For an introduction to what he’s like today, here is his 2012 TED Talk. The differences between Stevenson in the film and Stevenson in his memoir are mostly matters of dramatic compression: ane...
Brie Larson plays Eva Ansley, who in real life co-founded the Equal Justice Initiative with Stevenson and currently serves as its operations director. Larson explained why she found Ansley inspirational at this year’s Variety Power of Women event, then brought her out on stage to talk about her work: In the 1980s, Ansley was running a project pairi...
Herbert Richardson, the Vietnam veteran whose execution Stevenson attends after failing to save him from the death penalty, was a real client, but the movie doesn’t dwell on how he got there. In real life, Richardson had psychological problems from his combat experiences—he was the only survivor of an ambush that killed his entire platoon—and ended...
Tom Chapman, the prosecutor who did the most to fight McMillian’s release, seems to have behaved even more badly in real life than he does in Just Mercy. The film traces his journey from indifference to McMillian’s case—he wasn’t the original prosecutor—to fanatical opposition to McMillian’s release, to grudging acceptance of McMillian’s innocence ...
In the movie’s scene in which Tate arrests McMillian, he taunts him by saying things like, “Those rims look like they cost you a pretty penny—who’ve you been working for?” That’s shitty, but in Walter McMillian’s version of the story, as reported in court filings, Tate said much worse: “He said he was going to stop us niggers from fucking these whi...
The judge at McMillian’s criminal trial—the one who decided that the death penalty was more appropriate than the life sentence the jury had decided on—really was named Robert E. Lee Key, Jr., and really did describe the crime as “the vicious and brutal killing of a young lady in the first full flower of adulthood.” Not too surprisingly, McMillian’s...
- Matthew Dessem
Dec 19, 2019 · Bypassing the usual setup for the sleek Hollywood based-on-a-true-story movie, Cretton and Jordan are among the few in the industry who have implemented an inclusion rider on their set, requiring...
- Dan Meyer
Jan 12, 2020 · Just Mercy is based on a true story of harrowing bigotry infiltrating, manipulating, and coercing the Alabama judicial system into abandoning its duty to protect and serve black Americans – but how does the Warner Bros. movie compare to the true story?
Jan 17, 2020 · But it is reassuringly, irresistibly, splendidly old-fashioned legal drama with a real world Atticus Finch at its centre – or perhaps more accurately, a modern day Amasa Coleman Lee, Harper Lee's...
- Michael B. Jordan
- Destin Daniel Cretton
Dec 26, 2019 · Just Mercy, the attorney Bryan Stevenson's 2014 bestseller, has already become a touchstone of criminal justice writing for helping change the conversation around capital punishment in America.
Jan 19, 2020 · Jamie Foxx and Michael B Jordan excel in this understated true-life story
