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Director Robin Bissell
Writer Robin Bissell

The Best of Enemies

Tagline: Change is worth fighting for

Release Date: 2019-04-05

Duration: 133 minutes

Synopsis

Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a community summit, battling over the desegregation of schools in Durham, North Carolina during the racially-charged summer of 1971. The incredible events that unfolded would change Durham and the lives of Atwater and Ellis forever.

Casting

  • Taraji P. Henson
    Ann Atwater
  • Bruce McGill
    Carvie Oldham
  • Anne Heche
    Mary Ellis
  • Sam Rockwell
    Claiborne Paul Ellis
  • Wes Bentley
    Floyd Kelly
  • John Gallagher Jr.
    Lee Trombley
  • Nick Searcy
    Garland Keith
  • Wilbur Fitzgerald
    Fire Safety Inspector
  • Nicholas Logan
    Wiley Yates
  • Rhoda Griffis
    Nurse Whitney