Manderlay (2005) on Netflix
In 1933 Alabama, Grace stops at Manderlay, a plantation where slavery still runs under Mam's Law. She stays with a few gunmen and a lawyer to free the people held there.
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Grace and her father, a gangster called Mulligan, drive through rural Alabama in 1933 with a convoy of gunmen and halt outside the plantation Manderlay. A woman comes out of its gates, saying that someone inside is about to be whipped for a stolen bottle of wine. Grace enters and learns that slavery still governs Manderlay under a code named Mam's Law, about seventy years after emancipation. She refuses to travel on. She keeps part of her father's gunmen and his lawyer, Joseph, and stays to secure the transition of the people there to freedom. Taking charge of the plantation, she draws up contracts that make the white family the workers and the black inhabitants the owners of the land and its cotton, and teaches them about democracy and racial equality.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Manderlay (2005)
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- During production of Manderlay, a donkey was slaughtered for a dramatic scene, and John C. Reilly, the actor originally cast as Dr. Hector, quit in protest; the scene was cut before the film was released.
- Nicole Kidman and James Caan, who appeared in Dogville, did not return for Manderlay: Kidman had scheduling conflicts, while Caan disapproved of the film's depiction of anti-American culture and slavery.
- Fearful about her sex scene in Manderlay, Bryce Dallas Howard said she approached it in a hypnotic state, and after the first take excused herself to the bathroom to collect her thoughts, then began to see it as comedic.
