Just Mercy (2019)
Every generation has its hero. Meet ours.
Just Mercy rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic
IMDb7.6/10· 82K votes
Rotten Tomatoes85%
Metacritic68%
TMDb7.854/10· 2K votesWith 85% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.6/10 on IMDb and 68/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.
About Just Mercy
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.
Cast of Just Mercy
Michael B. Jordan
as Bryan Stevenson
Brie Larson
as Eva Ansley
Jamie Foxx
as Walter McMillian
O'Shea Jackson Jr.
as Anthony Ray Hinton
Rafe Spall
as Tommy Champan
Rob Morgan
as Herbert Richardson
Tim Blake Nelson
as Ralph Myers
Rhoda Griffis
as Judge Pamela Bachab
J. Alphonse Nicholson
as Henry Davis
Karan Kendrick
as Minnie McMillian
Hayes Mercure
as Jeremy Doss
Lindsay Ayliffe
as Judge Foster
Just Mercy facts
- Budget
- $25M
- Box office
- $50.4M
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Audience opinions
What the audience liked
- •Earnest courtroom drama centers powerful real-person story effectively
- •Death penalty examination generates genuine moral weight and gravity
- •Historical 1980s setting provides important context for systemic injustice
What the audience disliked
- •Conventional crime drama structure relies on familiar legal thriller beats
- •Truth-concealing aspects feel somewhat didactic rather than dramatically organic
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