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Heavens Fall (2005)
Directed by Terry Green
"Heavens Fall," writer/director Terry Green's movie about the Scottsboro Boys, will shoot through October, including scenes in downtown Montgomery, Union Springs and in Tennessee. The film will focus on the 1933 retrial of nine black teenagers accused of sexually assaulting two white women on a train.
It will star B.J. Britt, Timothy Hutton, Leelee Sobieski, Anthony Mackie, David Strathairn and Maury Chaykin. Wade Danielson and Gloria Everett are producing and Norman Twain is exec producer.
Sobieski plays Victoria Price, one of two women who accuse nine black youths of rape, making for one of the most volatile trials to take place in the segregated South.
Azura Skye plays the second accuser, who recants and sparks a second trial that might clear the defendants, most of whom received the death penalty.
Hutton plays Sam Leibowitz, a renowned Gotham defense attorney who has never lost a capital case. Bill Sage, Anthony Mackie and James Tolkan round out the cast.
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