The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.
Keywords:
Death penalty
Judge
Innocence
Based on true story
Lawyer
Electric chair
Racism
Execution
Justice
Humiliation
Injustice
1980s
Legal drama
Earnest
Excited
Based on real person
Concealing the truth
Movie tag line: "Every generation has its hero. Meet ours."
Character: Bryan Stevenson
Character: Eva Ansley
Character: Walter McMillian
Character: Anthony Ray Hinton
Character: Tommy Champan