Tisch School of the Arts (NYU)

A middle-aged mobster is convinced that his owes most of his success to the long-term loyalty of his good friend. He is the only one unaware that his "friend" is a backstabbing schemer who is both using and undermining him.

At 2:30AM on August 28, 1955 in the most racially divided state in the country, 64 year-old Mose Wright tries to protect his 14 year-old nephew Emmett Till from two racist killers out for blood. Based on the true story of the 1955...

The tense relationship between a mother and son reaches a climax during a summer heatwave.