Burden.
One word titles can be descriptive or vague, but this one is fitting. The word just screams a description of an emotional drama movie. What is this about?
Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker (The Butler, Black Panther) and Garrett Hedlund (Mudbound) star in a powerful and timely true-story of faith and love overcoming hate. Set in a small South Carolina town scarred from deep-rooted racism in the mid-nineties, an unlikely friendship forms when an African American Reverend (Whitaker) shelters Mike Burden (Hedlund) a KKK member, along with his girlfriend Judy, a single mother played by Andrea Riseborough. Through his faith and love, Reverend Kennedy helps Mike leave his violent past in the Klan ultimately helping to heal the community.
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A former KKK man trying to leave his racist past behind with the help of reverend Forest Whitaker? Sign me up. I never really bought Whitaker as the host of The Twilight Zone revival series (remember that?), but he’s a skilled actor and this could be a surprisingly meaty role for him to sink his skilled acting teeth into.
Burden opens as a LIMITED release in theaters on February 28, 2020.
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