Marshall (2017)

Directed by

Reginald Hudlin

Genre

drama film, legal drama, biographical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 58m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 684 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Thurgood Marshall, a young NAACP lawyer, takes on a case defending a black chauffeur accused of sexual assault by his white employer. He teams up with a local Jewish lawyer to navigate a biased legal system.

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What happens

Marshall is a 2017 American biographical legal drama film directed by Reginald Hudlin and written by Michael and Jacob Koskoff. It stars Chadwick Boseman as Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice, and focuses on one of the first cases of his career, the State of Connecticut v. Joseph Spell. It also stars Josh Gad, Kate Hudson, Dan Stevens, Sterling K. Brown, and James Cromwell. The project was announced in December 2015, along with Boseman's casting, and principal photography began in Los Angeles in mid-December 2015 and moved on to Buffalo and Niagara Falls, New York. The film premiered at Howard University on September 20, 2017, and was released in the United States by Open Road Films on October 13, 2017. It received positive reviews from critics, with praise directed at Boseman's performance and with criticism aimed at the screenplay. It went on to gross $10 million against a $12 million budget. At the 90th Academy Awards, it received a nomination for Best Original Song for "Stand Up for Something". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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