Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story (2002)
- Directed by
- Tony Bill
- Genre
- drama
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A black man in Texas is wrongly convicted of a rape and murder he did not commit. The film follows his fight to prove his innocence.
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What happens
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story is a 2002 biographical film directed by Tony Bill and starring Courtney B. Vance. It tells the true story of Clarence Brandley, who was wrongly convicted for the rape and murder of Cheryl Dee Fergeson in 1981. The film was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special, but it lost to The Rosa Parks Story. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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