Heavens Fall

Heavens Fall

Infobox_Film
name = Heavens Fall


caption = Promotional poster for "Heavens Fall"
writer = Terry Green
starring = Timothy Hutton
Leelee Sobieski
David Strathairn
Azura Skye
Bill Sage
Anthony Mackie
James Tolkan
Bill Smitrovich
Maury Chaykin
Francie Swift
director = Terry Green
producer = Anna Marie Crovetti
Wade Danielson
Gloria Everett
released = DVD (Region 4) Australia, May 16, 2007
DVD USA, November 6, 2007
= DVD USA, November 6, 2007 runtime =
language = English
budget =
music =
awards = |Best Feature Film 2006 Hollywood Film Festival, Audience Choice Award 2006 Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, Opening Night Film 2006 Stony Brook Film Festival, World Premiere 2006 South by Southwest Film Festival imdb_id = 0425094/

Heavens Fall is an American film based on the Scottsboro Boys incident of 1931.

Plot

In the film, two young white women (portrayed by Leelee Sobieski and Azura Skye) accuse nine black youths of rape in the segregated South. Timothy Hutton stars as criminal defense attorney Samuel Leibowitz.The film begins after the first trial of the nine in the present-day bustling city of Scottsboro, Alabama. Samuel Leibowitz, a successful Jewish lawyer from New York is called down past the Mason-Dixon Line to defend the nine blacks.

Production

A train from the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum was used in the filming.

Release

"Heavens Fall" was released on DVD in the USA in 2007.

ee also

*Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

External links

* [http://www.heavensfallthemovie.net Movie Website]
*imdb title|id=0425094


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