[Durham INC] March 20 Best of Enemies film at Duke

[Laura Drey]

March 20   4:30   (Tickets on sale March 6)

“Best of Enemies” drama film screening and panel discussion

The movie is based on a true story about the extraordinary relationship between Ann Atwater (Henson), a fearless and outspoken civil rights activist who faced off against C.P. Ellis (Rockwell), a local Ku Klux Klan leader, to blaze a path toward school desegregation in Durham in 1971. Through an incredible series of events — and against all odds — these two people with very different views and backgrounds formed an unexpected friendship that ultimately led to large scale social change. http://www.carolinatheatre.org/events/best-enemies <http://www.carolinatheatre.org/events/best-enemies>

“Empire” star Henson portrays Ann Atwater, a civil rights activist in Durham, N.C., who battled KKK leader C.P. Ellis (played by Rockwell) for a decade until 1971, when the two agreed to co-chair a two-week community meeting to deal with a court-ordered school desegregation decree. That event changed both of their lives. Ceesay portrays Bill Riddick, who reluctantly persuaded Ellis and Atwater to head the community summit to try and reach a compromise.”
Variety: Taraji P. Henson-Sam Rockwell Drama ‘Best of Enemies’ Bought by STX https://variety.com/2018/film/news/taraji-p-henson-sam-rockwell-drama-best-of-enemies-stx-1202874032/ <https://variety.com/2018/film/news/taraji-p-henson-sam-rockwell-drama-best-of-enemies-stx-1202874032/> 
The Best of Enemies is an upcoming American drama film <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama_film> directed and written by Robin Bissell. It is based on the book The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South by Osha Gray Davidson <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osha_Gray_Davidson>. The film stars Taraji P. Henson <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taraji_P._Henson>, Sam Rockwell <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Rockwell>, Babou Ceesay <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babou_Ceesay>, Anne Heche <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Heche>, Wes Bentley <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Bentley>, Bruce McGill <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_McGill>, John Gallagher Jr. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gallagher_Jr.>, and Nick Searcy <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Searcy>.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_of_Enemies_(2019_film) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_of_Enemies_(2019_film)> 

Osha Gray Davidson will sign his books before the film. The panel will include director and writer Robin Bissell, Mary Martin, who was a friend of Atwater’s, and Bill Riddick, who is portrayed in the film as manager of the local committee. 

Free tickets are available for the Duke showing at Duke’s Box Office starting March 6 by calling (919) 684-4444, going in person to the Bryan Center or through  tickets.duke.edu <http://tickets.duke.edu/>  If go on line there is $1.50. Limited to 4 tickets.

Duke University’s Griffith Theater in Bryan Center

Trailer: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4807408/videoplayer/vi1569896985?ref_=tt_pv_vi_aiv_1 <https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4807408/videoplayer/vi1569896985?ref_=tt_pv_vi_aiv_1>

Beware there are 2 films with the same title that are about 2 different situations. The other film came out in 2015 and is about William Buckley and Gore Vidal.

The showing at the Carolina Theatre in Durham is sold out.

It is scheduled for theatrical release on April 5, 2019 by STX Entertainment <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STX_Entertainment>.

Laura
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