Inspired by true events, when a handshake deal goes sour, funeral home owner
Jeremiah O’Keefe (Academy Award® winner
Tommy Lee Jones) enlists charismatic, smooth-talking attorney Willie E. Gary (Academy
Award® winner Jamie Foxx) to save his family business. Tempers flare and laughter ensues as the unlikely pair bond while exposing corporate corruption and racial injustice in this inspirational, triumphant story.
Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Jamie Foxx, Jurnee Smollett, Mamoudou Athie, Pamela Reed, with Bill Camp, and Alan Ruck Directed by Maggie Betts Story by Doug Wright
Screenplay by Doug Wright and Maggie Betts
Based on The New Yorker article by Jonathan Harr Produced by Celine Rattray, p.g.a., Trudie Styler, p.g.a., Jamie Foxx, p.g.a., Datari Turner, p.g.a., Jenette Kahn, p.g.a., Adam Richman, p.g.a., Bobby Shriver, p.g.a.
