Redeemer (TV Movie 2002)

Redeemer: Directed by Graeme Clifford. With Matthew Modine, Obba Babatundé, Michele Greene, Bruce Dinsmore. A writer is touched by the story of a former Black Panther who seams to have been wrongfully convicted to life imprisonment 20 years ago. The writer decides to try to help the now middle-aged convict get exonerated.

“A writer comes to teach a creative writing class in a prison hoping to find a story for his next best seller. Instead, he finds a fluent ex black panther that has been serving a long time, 20 years since a man was accidentally shot dead during a break in.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIn order to help the convict out of jail, the writer must first help the victimu0026#39;s sister set herself free from the metaphorical prison sheu0026#39;s been locking herself in for the last 20 years.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe movie is better than the average American TV drama.”