Until the Night - DVD

Andrea (Jemima Kirke) lost herself in writing, becoming a teen prodigy before moving on to heroin. Now she lives sober, but the words seem gone forever. Hitting thirty, she finds herself drawn back to a one-night stand, Nick (Jamie Dornan), a doctor who lost himself in the desolation of the Gaza Strip, before finding international fame for writing about his heroics and love affair there. Living in L.A without a license or credit card, after every night with Nick she rides the bus back up to the home she shares with her younger sister, Tara (Lola Kirke). Tara was never a troublemaker, so inherently good that her way of acting out is to lose herself in religion, falling in love with a Rabbi (Billy Crystal). She's grown up and away from her boyfriend, Martin (Ben Mendelsohn), who gave up his Australia-only fame as a rock god, for the less interesting and more stable life of being a house painter (making Tara his God). That is who they've been so far. This is their turning point.

In 1976, after years of mysterious absence, Marcus (Anthony Mackie, THE HURT LOCKER) returns to the Philadelphia neighborhood where he came of age in the midst of the Black Power movement. While his arrival raises suspicion among his family and former neighbors, he finds acceptance from his old friend Patricia (Kerry Washington, RAY) and her daughter. However, Marcus quickly finds himself at odds with the organization he once embraced, whose members suspect he orchestrated the slaying of their former comrade-in-arms. In a startling sequence of events, Marcus must protect a secret that could shatter everyone's beliefs as he rediscovers his forbidden passion for Patricia.

Chicago, 1955 Mamie Till (Danielle Deadwyler) saw her 14-year-old son Emmett (Jalyn Hill) off to spend the summer with family in Mississippi. She'd never see him alive again, as two locals beat and shot him for allegedly whistling at a white woman. After the assailants' swift acquittal, she'd channel her sorrow into a lifetime's activism and ensuring her son's story would be known to the world. Sobering portrait also stars Whoopi Goldberg, Frankie Faison, Haley Bennett, Jamie Renell. 130 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English.