Loving

[Brian in Mesa]

Loving

Release date: November 4, 2016 (limited; expands: Nov. 11)
Studio: Focus Features
Director: Jeff Nichols
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for thematic elements)
Screenwriter: Jeff Nichols
Genre: Biography, Drama
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Starring: Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga, Michael Shannon

Plot Summary: From acclaimed writer/director Jeff Nichols, "Loving" celebrates the real-life courage and commitment of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving (portrayed by Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga), who married and then spent the next nine years fighting for the right to live as a family in their hometown. Their civil rights case, Loving v. Virginia, went all the way to the Supreme Court, which in 1967 reaffirmed the very foundation of the right to marry - and their love story has become an inspiration to couples ever since.

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I really, really want to see this movie. And I'm bummed that it's only showing in LA and NY.

This was a seminal case in US jurisprudence that lead to so many good things.

"Marriage is one of the "basic civil rights of man," fundamental to our very existence and survival. Skinner v. Oklahoma, 316 U. S. 535, 316 U. S. 541 (1942). See also Maynard v. Hill, 125 U. S. 190 (1888). To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law. The Fourteenth Amendment requires that the freedom of choice to marry not be restricted by invidious racial discriminations. Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual, and cannot be infringed by the State.

These convictions must be reversed.

It is so ordered."