Burden

Burden

2020 · 129 min · EN · R · 6.1 (64 votes)
Dir. Andrew Heckler · Starring Garrett Hedlund, Andrea Riseborough, Forest Whitaker, Tom Wilkinson, Usher, Tess Harper · Music Dickon Hinchliffe

Based on the powerful and inspiring true story.

Drama

Ku Klux Klansman Mike Burden opens the Redneck Shop and KKK museum in historic Laurens, SC. He subsequently falls in love with a single mother and, under her influence, quits the Klan and is taken in by an African American Reverend.

VIBE

This film feels like a heavy, quiet examination of a soul's arduous journey toward light. It's a stark, unflinching look at the possibility of change, even in the darkest of circumstances, with a deeply human core.

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