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The Burial (film)
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| Directed by | Maggie Betts |
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| Story by | Doug Wright[1] |
| Based on | "The Burial" by Jonathan Harr |
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| Cinematography | Maryse Alberti |
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| Music by | Michael Abels |
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| Distributed by | Amazon Prime Video |
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Running time | 126 minutes[2] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $32.5 million[3] |
The Burial is a 2023 American legal drama film directed by Maggie Betts and written by Betts and Doug Wright. It is loosely based on the true story of lawyer Willie E. Gary and his client Jeremiah Joseph O'Keefe's lawsuit against the Loewen funeral company, as documented in the 1999 New Yorker article of the same name by Jonathan Harr.[4] It stars Jamie Foxx as Gary, Tommy Lee Jones as O'Keefe, Jurnee Smollett, Mamoudou Athie, and Bill Camp.
It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2023, and was released by Amazon MGM Studios in a limited release on October 6, 2023, prior to streaming via Prime Video on October 13, 2023.
- ^ "The Burial". Writers Guild of America West. September 6, 2022. Retrieved August 2, 2023.
- ^ "The Burial (15)". British Board of Film Classification. September 22, 2023. Retrieved September 22, 2023.
- ^ "Fastlane NextGen: Initial Certification Search" (Type "The Burial" in the search box). Louisiana Economic Development. Retrieved August 18, 2023.
- ^ Jonathan Harr (October 24, 1999). "The Burial". The New Yorker.
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