Anthony Mackie, Azura Skye, Bill Sage

Successful New York attorney Sam Leibowitz travels to the South in 1933 to defend nine young black men accused of raping two women on an Alabama freight train. In the spring of 1931 nine black hoboes ...( read more  read more... )were pulled off an Alabama freight train and arrested for allegedly raping two young white women in a gondola car. Ranging in ages from twelve to twenty years, they were quickly tried and sentenced to the electric chair. News of their convictions spread and the plight of the Scottsboro Boys became a 'cause celebre' that fueled the fire of socialism worldwide, forcing an appeal to the United States Supreme Court and resulting in new trials for all nine defendants. New Yorker Samuel Leibowitz, a savvy and self-assured defense lawyer with an impressive string of courtroom victories, agreed to represent the accused at their retrials in Decatur, Alabama. His journey into the Deep South symbolized the polarity of the times and set in motion a legal battle that ultimately changed the course of American jurisprudence.

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PG-13, 105 minutes

Directed by: Terry Green

Release Date: July 20, 2006

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DVD Release Date: November 6, 2007

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  • June 6, 2009
    I loved this movie. My gosh I just had to give it a full rating. It was really sad having to see an innocent man guilty regardless of all what that lawyer didto prove his innocence. That lawyer was on fire he was just so... interesting to watch and I impaitently waited to hear wh...( read more)at other question he would ask the witness. Well at the end I think the judge changed the verdict because it was evident that it was based on bigotry so... I was relived I really thought the defendant would have been electrocuted just b/c of the colour of his skin.
  • March 20, 2009
    Good movie based on the true story of the Scottsboro nine trials. How racism affected the trial in the deep south, especially since all the jurors were white, southern men. Good solid performances from all the actors, however I wasn't really fond of Hutton's protrayal. He came...( read more) off a little strange to me, but that may be how is character was supposed to be. His NY accent seemed to come and go at times. Overall interesting, well done movie.
  • September 9, 2008
    Powerful and moving true story of hate and racism in the south.
  • July 12, 2008
    Good court room drama based on a true story.
  • May 21, 2008
    Really great flick, interesting, powerful great cast.
  • April 15, 2008
    it was a really good movie, but really sad
  • January 6, 2008
    A very disturbing movie of how strong hatred & racism was and still can be.
  • December 29, 2007
    Recommended by Carol H

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