Till

2022 • 130 minutes

About this movie

Till" is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till-Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie's poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother's ability to change the world. Chinonye Chukwu directs from a screenplay co-written with Michael Reilly & Keith Beauchamp. Danielle Deadwyler, Jalyn Hall, Frankie Faison, Haley Bennett and Whoopi Goldberg star.

Ratings and reviews

A powerful movie with a great talented cast that presents the brutal and cowardly murder and aftermath of 14-year Emmett Till a teenager from Chicago who was killed whilst visiting family in the US state of Mississippi. Emmett smother Mamie fights through her grief and makes America and the world pay attention to the tragedy and the plight of Black America who with the birth of the civil rights movement of the aim to hold America accountable to it promise of freedom and equality for all.