Till

Till Movie Details:

Till Movie Cast and Characters:

• Danielle Deadwyler as Mamie Till
• Jalyn Hall as Emmett Till, Mamie’s deceased son.
• Kevin Carroll as Rayfield Mooty, a member of Civil Rights activism organization NAACP.
• Frankie Faison as John Carthan, Mamie’s father and Emmett’s grandfather.
• Haley Bennett as Carolyn Bryant, a 21-year-old Southern shopkeeper whose accusations led to Emmett’s murder.
• Jayme Lawson as Myrlie Evers, an NAACP member and Medgar Evers’s wife.
• Tosin Cole as Medgar Evers, an NAACP member and Myrlie’s husband.
• Sean Patrick Thomas as Gene Mobley, Mamie’s boyfriend and eventual husband who is also a father figure to Emmett.
• John Douglas Thompson as Mose “Preacher” Wright, Emmett’s uncle and Elizabeth’s husband.
• Roger Guenveur Smith as T.R.M. Howard, the head of the Regional Council.
• Whoopi Goldberg as Alma Carthan, Mamie’s mother and Emmett’s grandmother.
• Keisha Tillis as Elizabeth Wright, Emmett’s aunt and Mose’s wife.
• Marc Collins as Wheeler Parker, Emmett’s oldest cousin.
• Diallo Thompson as Maurice Wright, Emmett’s cousin.
• Tyrik Johnson as Simeon “Simmy” Wright, Emmett’s youngest cousin.
• Keith Arthur Bolden as William Huff, the leader of the NAACP chapter in Chicago.
• Darian Rolle as Willie Reed, a black man who was an eyewitness to Emmett’s murder.
• Sean Michael Weber as Roy Bryant, Carolyn’s husband and one of the men who kidnapped and murdered Emmett.
• Eric Whitten as John William “J.W.” Milam, Roy’s half-brother and one of the men who kidnapped and murdered Emmett.

Storyline:

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.

About Till Movie:

• The film is dedicated to the memory of Mamie Till’s life and legacy.
• The film was officially announced in August 2020. Filming began in Bartow County, Georgia, in September 2021.
• The film uses 27 years’ worth of research by Keith Beauchamp, whose efforts led to the reopening of Emmett Till’s case by the United States Department of Justice in 2004.
• Many film critics and journalists believed Danielle Deadwyler would be nominated for Best Actress at the 95th Academy Awards but she did not receive the nomination.
• Till had its world premiere at the New York Film Festival on October 1, 2022, was theatrically released in the United States on October 14, 2022, by United Artists Releasing, and was released in the United Kingdom on January 6, 2023, by Universal Pictures. The film received positive reviews from critics and audiences, with Deadwyler’s performance garnering widespread acclaim, and was named one of the best films of 2022 by the National Board of Review. It was released for VOD platforms on November 22, 2022, followed by a Blu-ray and DVD release on January 17, 2023.
• In the United States and Canada, the film made $242,269 from 16 theaters in its opening weekend. The film held this record as the highest platform release opening of the year until The Whale two months later.
• Till has grossed $11 million against a production budget of $20 million.