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Just Mercy

Mon, Jan 19, 2026
Free
    Part of
  • BAM Film 2026
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton (2019)
With Michael B. Jordan, Brie Larson, Jamie Foxx
Based on lawyer and social justice activist Bryan Stevenson’s memoir and his history-making battles for justice in Alabama, Just Mercy brings to the big screen the incendiary case of Walter McMillian (Foxx), a Black man wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. With the system stacked against them, Stevenson (Jordan) refuses to back down as he fights to prove Walter's innocence.

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      RUNNING TIME

      137min

      VENUE

      Peter Jay Sharp Building
      BAM Rose Cinemas

      FORMAT

      DCP

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      Free
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      No ticket or RSVP required.

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