Tommy Lee Jones

Tommy Lee Jones is portraying Jeremiah “Jerry” O'Keefe and Jamie Foxx co-stars as Willie E. Gary, one of the attorneys on O'Keefe's defense team in 1995. Bill ...

Klan members were arrested, City Hall was vandalized and O’Keefe had a cross burned on his front lawn. In a move to bring resonance to a dry case, the lawyer digs up a complex web of race, power, and oppression that forces everyone to examine prejudices.” “My dad had tried to settle the whole thing,” he said. While the film is based on a true story, the filmmakers may take liberties with what actually happened. He was elected as a member of the Mississippi House of Representative and served eight years as Biloxi mayor. The trial went on for weeks in Jackson and “flamboyant” lawyer Willie E. Gary flew in on his “Wings of Justice” plane to represent O’Keefe. The story is, according to the film’s website: “A lawyer helps a funeral home owner save his family business from a corporate behemoth.