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Just Mercy (2019)

★ 7.9 · 2,478 ratings on TMDB

Every generation has its hero. Meet ours.

Just Mercy poster★ 7.9

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.

DirectorDestin Daniel Cretton
CastBrie Larson, J. Alphonse Nicholson, Jamie Foxx, Karan Kendrick, Michael B. Jordan, O'Shea Jackson Jr.
GenresCrime, Drama, History
The emergence reading

Just Mercy keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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