The Best of Enemies (2019)
Drama · History
Overview
Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a community summit, battling over the desegregation of schools in Durham, North Carolina during the racially-charged summer of 1971. The incredible events that unfolded would change Durham and the lives of Atwater and Ellis forever.
Cast
- Taraji P. Henson as Ann Atwater
- Sam Rockwell as Claiborne Paul Ellis
- Babou Ceesay as Bill Riddick
- Anne Heche as Mary Ellis
- Wes Bentley as Floyd Kelly
- Nick Searcy as Garland Keith
- Bruce McGill as Carvie Oldham
- John Gallagher Jr. as Lee Trombley
- Nicholas Logan as Wiley Yates
- Gilbert Glenn Brown as Howard Clement