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Heavens Fall is a film of genre Drama released in USA on 20 july 2006 with Timothy Hutton
Heavens Fall (2006)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 20 july 2006
Rating65%
Heavens Fall is an 2006 American film based on the Scottsboro Boys incident of 1931.
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In the film, two young white women (portrayed by Leelee Sobieski and Azura Skye) accuse nine black youths of rape in the segregated South. Timothy Hutton stars as criminal defense attorney Samuel Leibowitz.Actors
Timothy Hutton
(Samuel Leibowitz)
Leelee Sobieski
(Victoria Price)
David Strathairn
(Judge James Horton)
Azura Skye
(Ruby Bates)
Bill Sage
(Thomas Knight, Jr.)
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