Supremacy (2014) on Netflix
Garrett Tully leaves prison and joins Doreen Lesser on an errand for a jailed Aryan Brotherhood boss. After a police officer is shot, the pair take an African-American family hostage.
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- Rotten Tomatoes27%
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Plot summary
Garrett Tully is paroled after fifteen years in prison. He meets Doreen Lesser, and the two run a drug errand for Paul Sobecki, their Aryan Brotherhood boss, who is behind bars. A police officer is shot dead. Tully and Lesser then enter a house and take an African-American family hostage. The family's patriarch, Sonny Walker, is an ex-con who has disavowed his son for joining the police. Walker tries to understand Tully's motives and to get his family out alive.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Supremacy (2014)
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- Supremacy dramatizes the case of Aryan Brotherhood member Robert Walter Scully Jr., who in 1995 shot Sonoma County Deputy Sheriff Frank Vasquez Trejo dead with a sawed-off shotgun outside the Santa Rosa Saddlery, then fled with Brenda Kay Moore to a nearby house where they held an African-American family of six hostage.
- Scully insisted at trial that shooting Deputy Trejo, who was Latino, was an accident, not racially motivated, but was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death plus 274 years for 11 related felonies; as of 2015 he was still on California's death row.
- Deputy Frank Vasquez Trejo was a 58-year-old 35-year law enforcement veteran who had served the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office for 15 years; more than 2,400 people attended his funeral, and he was posthumously awarded the Gold Medal of Valor for dying in the line of duty.
- Director Deon Taylor couldn't get the look he wanted with an HD camera, so he shot Supremacy on 16 mm film instead, having to consult all the producers first because it was expensive; with limited money he could afford only one or two takes per scene, and the shoot lasted just 17 days.
- The first day of principal photography on Supremacy was a scene in which a black teenager, a young black baby and Danny Glover are threatened with a gun while being called a racial slur; Taylor said it was very difficult to work that way and sat down with each actor beforehand to explain what was going to happen.
