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Gospel Hill (2008)

Gospel Hill poster
Directed by
Giancarlo Esposito
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 39m
Rating
4.7 of 10 from 27 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A retired civil rights activist lives quietly in a small southern town. An old friend returns and old secrets about a murder surface.

slow-burnsubduedmelancholicreflectiveserioussouthsmall-townpast-tense

What happens

Gospel Hill is a 2008 American independent drama film directed and produced by Giancarlo Esposito (in his directorial debut) and written by Jeff Stacy, Jeffrey Pratt Gordon, and Terrell Tannen. Esposito also stars alongside Adam Baldwin, Angela Bassett, Tom Bower, Danny Glover, Taylor Kitsch, Chloe Bailey, Nia Long, RZA, and Julia Stiles. The film premiered at the Woodstock Film Festival on October 3, 2008, was released on DVD in the United States on February 10, 2009. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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