Till (2022) Based on the true story.
Produced by Orion Pictures, the film uses 27 years’ worth of research by Keith Beauchamp, whose efforts led to the reopening of Till’s case by the United States Department of Justice in 2004.
In 1955, after Emmett Till is murdered in a brutal lynching, his mother vows to expose the racism behind the attack while working to have those involved brought to justice.
Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie’s poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother’s ability to change the world.
Deadwyler doesn’t just evoke Mamie’s speech patterns (which are very specific to Black women in the city trying to shed vestiges of the rural South) or capture her mannerisms, which remain precise at all times; she embodies every single inch of Mamie, body, and soul, bringing her to life and making her real in both our minds and our hearts. What she does with her face and body language is never short of mesmerizing.
There is a moment on the witness stand where she flutters her eyes while recalling how she recognized her child’s body, letting only the white of the right eye show for a brief instance, a feat that is both remarkable and achingly poignant. This magnificent performance elevates Deadwyler to the ranks of the great actors of our time.
| Genres | Biography, DramaHistory, Certificate |
| Directed by | Chinonye Chukwu |
| Written by | Michael Reilly Keith Beauchamp Chinonye Chukwu |
| Produced by | Keith Beauchamp Barbara Broccoli Whoopi Goldberg Thomas Levine Michael Reilly Frederick Zollo |
| Starring | Danielle Deadwyler Jalyn Hall Frankie Faison Haley Bennett Whoopi Goldberg Cinematography Bobby Bukowski |
| Edited by | Ron Patane |
| Music by | Abel Korzeniowski |
| Production companies | Orion Pictures Eon Productions Frederick Zollo Productions Whoop, Inc. |
| Distributed by | United Artists Releasing (United States) Universal Pictures (International) |
| Release dates | October 1, 2022 (NYFF) October 14, 2022 (United States) January 6, 2023 (United Kingdom) |
| Running time | 130 minutes |
| Countries | United Kingdom, United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $9 million |
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