Is it worth staying through the credits of Clemency?
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Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill.
Clemency: cast and crew
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Cast
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Alfre Woodard
Warden Bernadine Williams
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Richard Schiff
Marty Lumetta
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Aldis Hodge
Anthony Woods
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Wendell Pierce
Jonathan Williams
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Danielle Brooks
Evette Wilkinson
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Michael O'Neill
Chaplain David Kendricks
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Richard Gunn
Deputy Thomas Morgan
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LaMonica Garrett
Major Logan Cartwright
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Vernee Watson
Mrs. Collins
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Dennis Haskins
Mr. Collins
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TMDB user reviews
CinemaSerf
This features a really poignant and strong effort from Alfre Woodard as the warden of a prison charged with ensuring the execution of prisoners. She, "Bernadine" is finding it increasingly more difficult to reconcile the responsibilities of her job with her own conscience and her marriage. None of these demons are helped when one such "procedure" goes awry and, though not her fault, she finds herself under increased scrutiny as Aldis Hodge's "Woods" is soon to follow. The performance elements of this from Woodard and from Wendell Pierce as her loving but increasingly exasperated husband "Jonathan" work well, creating a really quite powerful vision of a woman torn between remaining objective …
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The actors do a fantastic job with this script. But here's my problem: A black woman (2 strikes against her) in a warden position in a (most likely) for-profit, corporation-owned prison, in a back-assward state that murders clearly innocent black people, and she has empathy? This is far-fetched fantasy that is so unbelievable as to be cartoonish. Just to be clear, most of the for-profit prisons in the USA are in right-wing states (except maybe Colorado). The odds of these corporations hiring a woman, or black person, or both as warden would have be pretty damn slim.
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