{"id":130409,"date":"2019-03-07T11:27:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T16:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/?p=130409"},"modified":"2019-03-07T14:15:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T19:15:42","slug":"photos-of-taraji-p-henson-sam-rockwell-from-race-drama-the-best-of-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/photos-of-taraji-p-henson-sam-rockwell-from-race-drama-the-best-of-enemies\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos Of Taraji P. Henson, Sam Rockwell From Race Drama ‘The Best Of Enemies’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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STXfilms has released some photos to Astute Films\u2019 civil rights drama The Best of Enemies<\/strong>, starring Taraji P. Henson <\/strong>and Academy Award winner and Sam Rockwell.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The film is directed by Robin Bissell,<\/strong> who also adapted the script from Osha Gray Davidson<\/strong>\u2019s book \u201cThe Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

The story centers on the battle and eventual friendship between Ann Atwater (Henson), a working class, single black mother in Durham, NC, who quit her job as a household domestic to join the civil rights fight, and C. P. Ellis (Rockwell), a working class white man also from Durham who, as a young man, joined the Ku Klux Klan. They fought for a decade until 1971, when the two agreed to co-chair a two-week community meeting to deal with a court-ordered school desegregation decree. That event changed both of their lives immeasurably.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Also featured in the film are Babou Ceesay, Anne Heche, Wes Bentley, Nick Searcy, Sope Aluko, John Gallagher Jr.,<\/strong> and Bruce McGill<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Danny Strong, Fred Bernstein, Matt Berenson, Bissell, Dominique Telson<\/strong> and Material Pictures\u2019 Tobey Maguire<\/strong> and Matthew Plouffe<\/strong> produced the period piece while Rick Jackson<\/strong> and Jeremiah Samuels<\/strong> served as executive producers.<\/p>\n

The Best of Enemies hits theaters on\u00a0April 5, 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n