The Burial (2023)

Directed by

Maggie Betts

Genre

legal drama

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 06m

Rated

R

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 632 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A lawyer takes on a case for a small funeral home owner against a large corporation. It follows their legal fight in a courtroom.

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What happens

The Burial is a 2023 American legal drama film directed by Maggie Betts and written by Betts and Doug Wright. It is loosely based on the true story of lawyer Willie E. Gary and his client Jeremiah Joseph O'Keefe's lawsuit against the Loewen funeral company, as documented in the 1999 New Yorker article of the same name by Jonathan Harr. It stars Jamie Foxx as Gary, Tommy Lee Jones as O'Keefe, Jurnee Smollett, Mamoudou Athie, and Bill Camp. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2023, and was released by Amazon MGM Studios in a limited release on October 6, 2023, prior to streaming via Prime Video on October 13, 2023. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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