Till

'Till' is based on the true story of the death of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old black boy who was kidnapped and murdered after a white woman named Carolyn Bryant said the boy had whistled at her in Mississippi in 1955. His mother, Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley, insisted at the funeral that the casket remain open so everyone could see what happened to her son. The photograph of Emmett's corpse made its way through the newspapers, becoming one of the most representative faces of racial injustice and violence in the South of the United States. After her son's death, Mamie Till-Mobley became a civil rights activist and educator, fighting against childhood poverty for over forty years.

After producing, directing, and writing several short films, Chinonye Chukwu is taking the plunge with her first feature film, which she co-writes with Michael Reilly and Keith Beauchamp. Danielle Deadwyler plays Mamie Till-Mobley, and Jalyn Hall plays Emmett Till. They are joined on screen by Frankie Faison, Haley Bennet, Jamie Rennel, Whoopi Goldberg, Sean Patrick Thomas, John Douglas Thompson, Gem Collins, Diallo Thompson, Tyrik Johnson, Enoch King, Carol J. Mckenith, Elizabeth Youman, Keisha Tillis, Sean Michael Weber, Eric Whitten, and Njema Williams.

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