Cinedigm has provided Blackfilm.com with an exclusive clip from the upcoming film Tuscaloosa, starring Devon Bostick, Natalia Dyer, Marchánt Davis, Tate Donovan, rapper YG (whose real name is Keenon Jackson), Ella Rae Peck, and Birgundi Baker.
The film was directed by Philip Harder from a script he wrote and adapted from Glasgow Phillips‘s novel.
The coming-of-age story is set in the summer of 1972 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Vietnam war protests and racial tension is sizzling in the late summer heat of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Billy Mitchell (Devon Bostick, Diary of a Wimpy Kid), a recent college graduate, spends the summer working on the lush grounds of an old world mental institution run by his psychiatrist father (Tate Donovan, Argo).
Billy falls in love with Virginia (Natalia Dyer, Velvet Buzzsaw, Stranger Things), a patient who is possibly crazy, or perhaps she is the only sane person Billy has in his world. Billy’s best friend Nigel (Marchant Davis) becomes involved with a radical civil rights terrorism movement against Tuscaloosa’s power elite, which includes Billy’s father. Billy is torn between Nigel, his father and his cronies, and Virginia who is planning her escape with or without Billy.
The Compton rapper YG, who was last seen on the big screen in White Boy Rick opposite Matthew McConaughey, plays the role of Antoine, a civil rights activist and Vietnam war veteran who “tangles with the Tuscaloosa police in 1972.
Exclusive Clip – That’s The Problem
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