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Heavens Fall

2006 American film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Heavens Fall
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Heavens Fall is a 2006 American film based on the Scottsboro Boys incident of 1931.

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Plot

In the film, two young white women (portrayed by Leelee Sobieski and Azura Skye) accuse nine black youths of rape in the segregated South. Timothy Hutton stars as criminal defense attorney Samuel Leibowitz. The film begins after the first trial of the nine in the bustling city of Scottsboro, Alabama. Samuel Leibowitz, a successful Jewish lawyer from New York is called down past the Mason–Dixon line to defend the nine black youths.

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Production

A train from the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum was used in the filming.

Release

Heavens Fall was released on DVD in the US in 2007.

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