The Best of Enemies

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Release date: April 05, 2019
Duration: 133 minutes
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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.

Starring

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Taraji P. Henson
Ann Atwater
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Sam Rockwell
Claiborne Paul Ellis
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Babou Ceesay
Bill Riddick
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Anne Heche
Mary Ellis
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Wes Bentley
Floyd Kelly