I will definitely see this movie! We were just discussing the control of the black woman's image. Now let's see how this movie fairs, since it does not contain pistol-packing grandmas or sinister, man-hating professional women. American Violet premieres on April 17.
Based on true events in the midst of the 2000 election, AMERICAN VIOLET tells the astonishing story of Dee Roberts (critically hailed newcomer Nicole Beharie), a 24 year-old African American single mother of four young girls living in a small Texas town who is barely making ends meet on a waitress salary and government subsidies.
On an early November morning while Dee works a shift at the local diner, the powerful local district attorney (Academy Award® nominee Michael OKeefe) leads an extensive drug bust, sweeping her Arlington Springs housing project with military precision. Police drag Dee from work in handcuffs, dumping her in the squalor of the womens county prison. Indicted based on the uncorroborated word of a single and dubious police informant facing his own drug charges, Dee soon discovers she has been charged as a drug dealer.
Even though Dee has no prior drug record and no drugs were found on her in the raid or any subsequent searches, she is offered a hellish choice: plead guilty and go home as a convicted felon or remain in prison and fight the charges thus, jeopardizing her custody and risking a long prison sentence.
Despite the urgings of her mother (Academy Award® nominee Alfre Woodard), and with her freedom and the custody of her children at stake, she chooses to fight the district attorney and the unyielding criminal justice system he represents. Joined in an unlikely alliance with an ACLU attorney (Tim Blake Nelson) and former local narcotics officer (Will Patton), Dee risks everything in a battle that forever changes her life and the Texas justice system. AMERICAN VIOLET also stars Emmy Award® winner Charles S. Dutton and Xzibit.
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Wow. Just watching that clip filled me with so much emotion. I hope this film does well and that the actress gets an award for her work. Where do I know her from?
The only other movie I can find that Nicole Beharie played in was The Express, the movie about Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy. She was Sarah Ward. But she looks like we know her, doesn't she? At least that was my reaction.
I remember this. Was in school when it happened. I love TX, but we can be a jacked up state sometimes. Having your school system declared unconstitutional by the Texas consistitution. Hell your prison system declared unconstitutional by the U. S. constitution. Apparently it was that bad. Not only that, but we have a private prison by a group called Wackenhut that looses prisons (they escape)left and right.
I can't exactly explain it, but the town was supposed to get money for more prisons if they incorporated or something like tht (I can't exactly remember) I just remember that there wasn't much crime to begin with so they started making it up so they could get the funding.
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