The Best of Enemies

2019 · 133 min · ★ 7.4 / 10 · 501 votes

Drama · History

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 · Sam Rockwell · Babou Ceesay · Anne Heche · Wes Bentley · Nick Searcy · Bruce McGill · John Gallagher Jr. · Nicholas Logan · Gilbert Glenn Brown

Director

Robin Bissell