Heavens Fall

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Heavens Fall
Promotional poster for Heavens Fall
Directed by	Terry Green
Produced by	Anna Marie Crovetti Wade Danielson Gloria Everett
Written by	Terry Green
Starring	Timothy Hutton Leelee Sobieski David Strathairn Azura Skye Bill Sage Anthony Mackie James Tolkan Bill Smitrovich Maury Chaykin Francie Swift
Release date(s)	DVD (Region 4) Australia, May 16, 2007 DVD USA, November 6, 2007
Language	English

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

Contents 1 Plot 2 production 3 release 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] 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 present-day 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 blacks.

[edit] production

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

[edit] release

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

[edit] See also

• Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

[edit] External links

• Movie Website
• Heavens Fall at the Internet Movie Database

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