Stud Free Pub (Una buena historia)
Inspired by true events, a lawyer helps a funeral home owner save his family business from a corporate behemoth, exposing a complex web of race, power, and injustice. Inspired by true events, when a h…
Stud Free Pub (Una buena historia)
Inspired by true events, a lawyer helps a funeral home owner save his family business from a corporate behemoth, exposing a complex web of race, power, and injustice. 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. Mississippi, mid-1990s: O'Keefe, a traditional family businessman, can hardly believe that despite a verbal promise, he is being financially taken advantage of by a large corporation. Frustrated and under intense pressure, he hires the successful and flamboyant African American lawyer Willie E. Gary. The trial, which is supposed to be about commercial fraud and should really only deal with contract law issues, develops into an exciting discourse on ethnicity and structural racism. The unlikely pair join forces and uncover corruption and racial injustice in this inspiring story. —ARD
Stud Free Pub (Una buena historia)
Documentary
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Inspired by true events, a lawyer helps a funeral home owner save his family business from a corporate behemoth, exposing a complex web of race, power, and injustice. 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. Mississippi, mid-1990s: O'Keefe, a traditional family businessman, can hardly believe that despite a verbal promise, he is being financially taken advantage of by a large corporation. Frustrated and under intense pressure, he hires the successful and flamboyant African American lawyer Willie E.
Gary. The trial, which is supposed to be about commercial fraud and should really only deal with contract law issues, develops into an exciting discourse on ethnicity and structural racism. The unlikely pair join forces and uncover corruption and racial injustice in this inspiring story.
—ARD.