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Plot:
Based on true events in the midst of the 2000 election, AMERICAN
VIOLET tells the astonishing story of Dee Roberts (critically
hailed newcomer Nicole Beharie), a 24 year-old African American
single mother of four young girls living in a small Texas
town who is barely making ends meet on a waitress’ salary
and government subsidies.
On an early November morning while Dee works a shift at the
local diner, the powerful local district attorney (Academy
Award® nominee Michael O’Keefe) leads an extensive
drug bust, sweeping her Arlington Springs housing project
with military precision. Police drag Dee from work in
handcuffs, dumping her in the squalor of 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 (Academy Award® nominee
Alfre Woodard), and with her freedom and the custody of her
children at stake, she chooses to fight the district attorney
and the unyielding criminal justice system he represents.
Joined in an unlikely alliance with an ACLU attorney (Tim
Blake Nelson) and former local narcotics officer (Will Patton),
Dee risks everything in a battle that forever changes her
life and the Texas justice system. AMERICAN VIOLET also
stars Emmy Award® winner Charles S. Dutton and Xzibit.
DETAILS__________
Studio:
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Production Co:
Uncommon Productions
Release Date:
April 17, 2009 (Limited)
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