![]() ![]() ![]() It’s Alma’s idea to send Emmett down to visit his Southern kin. “That’s the ‘Mama, mind your business and go home’ face,” she says when Mamie silently expresses her displeasure over an opinion, a funny line in a film that is not without humor. He has the usual “but Mom” teenager moments with his mother, Mamie ( Danielle Deadwyler), who in turn has the same moments with her own mother, Alma ( Whoopi Goldberg). Chukwu documents him getting dressed and ready for his trip down South to visit his cousins. Played by Jalyn Hall in the first third of the film, he’s the typical 14-year-old. Director Chinonye Chukwu and her co-screenwriters, Keith Beauchamp and Michael Reilly aim to give viewers a glimpse of who Till was before he was murdered. ![]() Through Till-Mobley’s actions, we know about the death of her son, and how hideously he was brutalized. ![]()
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