Till (2022) on Netflix
In 1955, Mamie Till's 14-year-old son Emmett leaves Chicago to visit relatives in Mississippi. A stop at a country store there puts him in danger, and his mother fights for justice.
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- IMDb7.2/1018,187 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes96%
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Plot summary
Mamie Till lives in Chicago with her son Emmett, who is fourteen. In August 1955 she sends him south to Money, Mississippi, to stay with relatives, warning him to be careful around white people. After a day picking cotton, Emmett and his cousins stop at a local store, where he tells Carolyn Bryant, a white shopkeeper, that she looks like a movie star. Before dawn on August 28, Roy Bryant and his half-brother J. W. Milam take Emmett from the Wrights' house. In Chicago, Mamie hears of the kidnapping. Her cousin Rayfield Mooty brings her to William Huff, who leads the city's NAACP chapter, and Mamie asks that her son's body be returned to Chicago.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Till (2022)
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- Till drew on 27 years' worth of research by Keith Beauchamp, whose work led the United States Department of Justice to reopen Emmett Till's murder case in 2004. The film was produced by Orion Pictures.
- Despite earning nominations at several other ceremonies, Danielle Deadwyler was controversially left out of the Best Actress field at the 95th Academy Awards, prompting director Chinonye Chukwu to criticize the film industry for "upholding whiteness and perpetuating an unabashed misogyny towards Black women".
