We are living at a time where it seems people are happy with the way things are. They have become complacent and issues of race, color, and religion have takes precedence over survival and development. The Best of Enemies movie brings a tale set in 1971 when two firebrand individuals from opposing sides realize that all that they really want is better opportunities for their children and chance for upward mobility.
The Best of Enemies Cast
Robin Bissell writes and directs this new drama based on a true story that takes audiences to Durham, North Carolina. Award wining stars Taraji P. Henson and Sam Rockwell play the lead roles in the movie that releases on April 5 2019.
The Best of Enemies (2019)
Directed By: Robin Bissell
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Sam Rockwell, Babou Ceesay, Gilbert Glen Brown
Release Date: April 5 2019, 8 PM ET/PT
The Best of Enemies Movie Plot
The Best of Enemies movie follows Ann Atwater and C. P. Ellis very well known in the communities and in the city. But these were not the people you could ever imagine talking together or agreeing on anything.
Ann Atwater, 32, was a single mother, raising her daughters in East Durham. Brazen slumlords, firetrap schools and do-nothing local officials were daily facts of life, but Ann fought back as a grass roots activist at Operation Breakthrough. Roughhouse Annie, as some called her, was a blessing to her neighbors, and a threat to her foes.
C.P. Ellis, age 44, eked out a living at a tiny East Durham gas station. He owned the place, but in Durham he’d always be a “linthead” – poor white trash – just like his millhand dad, and his own four kids. C.P. joined the KKK because he wanted to belong. They listened when C.P. spoke, and by 1971, he’d become their voice as Durham’s Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan.
But when the school in Ann’s neighborhood burned down and non one willing to accommodate the affected kids in a white school, it was decided to solve the escalating problem in Durham with a Charrette. A community meeting convened to solve a problem by bringing opposing sides together to talk it out.
Durham’s meeting would last for 10 days, from 9 AM until 9 PM, with Riddick, a Raleigh academic with impressive charrette credentials, running the show.
With the city council determined to stop schools from mixing, KKK guy Ellis became their man for the meeting. Much as Ann hated C.P., she warmed to Mary and realized that the Atwater and Ellis families both wanted something better for their kids than Durham had allowed. And while it was hard to fathom that Ann and C.P. could find any common ground, it was also clear that whatever the outcome of the charrette vote itself, change had already begun in Durham.
The Best of Enemies Movie Trailer
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