American Violet

Movie added on: March 30, 2009

American Violet is a 2009 drama directed by Tim Disney and starring Nicole Beharie.The story is based on Regina Kelly, a victim of Texas police drug enforcement tactics.

  • Director:Tim Disney
  • Release Date:17 April 2009 (USA)
  • Genre:Drama

Cast

  • Nicole Beharie : Dee Roberts
  • Will Patton : Sam Conroy
  • Alfre Woodard : Alma Roberts
  • Michael O’Keefe : Calvin Beckett
  • Tim Blake Nelson : David Cohen

Set in the midst of the 2000 presidential election, AMERICAN VIOLET tells the story of Dee Roberts (Nicole Beharie), a 24 year-old African-American single mother of four, living in a small Texas town (based after Hearne, Texas where the real incident took place). One day, while Dee is working a shift at the local diner, the powerful local district attorney (Michael O’Keefe) leads a drug bust, sweeping Dee’s housing project. Police drag Dee from work in handcuffs, dumping her in the women’s 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 (Alfre Woodard), and with her freedom and the custody of her children at stake, she chooses to fight the district attorney. Joined in an unlikely alliance with an ACLU attorney (Tim Blake Nelson) and a former local narcotics officer (Will Patton), Dee risks everything in a battle that forever changes her life and the Texas justice system.Read more

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