Heavens Fall
Heavens Fall

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Successful New York attorney Sam Leibowitz travels to the South in 1933 to defend nine young black men accused of raping two women on an Alabama freight train. In the spring of 1931 nine black hoboes were pulled off an Alabama freight train and arrested for allegedly raping two young white women in a gondola car. Ranging in ages from twelve to twenty years, they were quickly tried and sentenced to the electric chair. News of their convictions spread and the plight of the Scot... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Heavens Fall:

Timothy Hutton
David Strathairn
Leelee Sobieski
Anthony Mackie
Bill Sage
Azura Skye

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Successful New York attorney Sam Leibowitz travels to the South in 1933 to defend nine young black men accused of raping two women on an Alabama freight train. In the spring of 1931 nine black hoboes were pulled off an Alabama freight train and arrested for allegedly raping two young white women in a gondola car. Ranging in ages from twelve to twenty years, they were quickly tried and sentenced to the electric chair. News of their convictions spread and the plight of the Scottsboro Boys became a 'cause celebre' that fueled the fire of socialism worldwide, forcing an appeal to the United States Supreme Court and resulting in new trials for all nine defendants. New Yorker Samuel Leibowitz, a savvy and self-assured defense lawyer with an impressive string of courtroom victories, agreed to represent the accused at their retrials in Decatur, Alabama. His journey into the Deep South symbolized the polarity of the times and set in motion a legal battle that ultimately changed the course of American jurisprudence. The Scottsboro case was a tragic chapter in American history and a story of epic injustice. From their arrest in 1931 to the release of the last Scottsboro defendant in 1950, the rights of nine young black men were violated. In this century in America, we face many of the same racial prejudices and human rights issues that existed almost seventy-five years ago. The names have changed, but the rhetoric that convicted the Scottsboro Nine remains virtually the same. Heavens Fall attempts to examine the cultural and political differences that divide us. It is my hope that by looking into the hearts and minds of the Scottsboro participants, black and white, North and South, powerful and impoverished, we may come to a better understanding of each other.

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Hollywood Reporter - 6/10 by John DeForeTarsem and his screenwriting collaborators aren't able to come up with enough interesting justifications for their sudden shifts, and soon the shape-shifting yarn just feels like lazy storytelling.
User Review - 10/10 by Sylver DIt was a very good movie. I hightly recommend it.
User Review - 10/10 by Mishal Wit was a really good movie, but really sad
User Review - 10/10 by Nichole NI loved this movie. My gosh I just had to give it a full rating. It was really sad having to see an innocent man guilty regardless of all what that lawyer didto prove his innocence. That lawyer was on fire he was just so... interesting to watch and I impaitently waited to hear what other question he would ask the witness. Well at the end I think the judge changed the verdict because it was evident that it was based on bigotry so... I was relived I really thought the defendant would have been electrocuted just b/c of the colour of his skin.
User Review - 8/10 by Wanda TPowerful and moving true story of hate and racism in the south.
User Review - 8/10 by Tony OThis was a good movie. It gives the liberal mind a lot to think about. Essentially in the struggle between the scientific method and irrational emotions, humans are inclined to embrace the latter. I mean this really wasnt that long ago! Im sure these feelings of racism and hate are still alive and well. How very unfortunate.
User Review - 8/10 by Ryan OThe Southern accents are really bad (Especially Bill Sage's and Leelee Sobieski's) and somewhat distracting. Still the story is powerful and deeply pertinent to the both the area in which I was born and also the one in which I now currently reside.
User Review - 8/10 by Heather MRacism is an ugly disease that has no cure, sadly, not so far :( A good movie; though it leaves u with mixed feelings, especially if u r not white!
User Review - 8/10 by Elizabeth SSolid acting by everyone involved -- compelling story!
User Review - 8/10 by Jenn TReally great flick, interesting, powerful great cast.

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