Alleged (Blu-Ray) [Blu-ray]

Features

• Type: Blu-ray
• Studio: eOne Films
• Language(s): english, english
• Director(s): Tom Hines
• Actor(s): JR Bourne, Nathan West, Colm Meaney, Brian Dennehy, Fred Thompson, Fred Dalton Thompson, Ashley Johnson

Charles Anderson (Nathan West) feels trapped writing for his deceased father?s meager newspaper and living in a tiny town (Dayton, TN) in steep decline. Local news is scarce in Dayton but in yonder Nashville the populist statesman and Christian fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan (Sen. Fred Thompson) stirs up the Tennessee legislature to pass an anti-evolution statute. At Robinson?s Drugstore a few local entrepreneurs, keen on a way to channel 20,000 or so folks into dying Dayton for a look-see, concoct a friendly scheme for the small town to host the ?Trial of the Century? - they just need a teacher at the high school willing to claim that he taught evolution. John Scopes (Jamie Kolacki) obliges despite never having taught evolution to anybody that he can recall. When the notorious agnostic Clarence Darrow (Brian Dennehy) agrees to defend Scopes and meet the Great Commoner in a battle to see which theory of mankind?s origin is the fittest (the Bible?s or Darwin?s), the entire world shows up and Dayton becomes the center of the journalistic universe. Once in the midst of this staged event, however, Nathan is torn between his love for the more principled Rose Williams (Ashley Johnson), his fiancée, and the escalating moral compromises that he is asked to make as the eager protégé of H.L. Mencken of the Baltimore Sun (Colm Meaney), America?s most colorful and influential columnist. Complicating matters is Rose?s half-sister of mixed race, Abigail (Khori Faison), who local doctors feel is a candidate for sterilization to prevent her, on Darwinian grounds, from propagating her supposedly inferior genes. ALLEGED is a true story of conflicts that boiled over in 1925 but that remain simmering with us to this day - evolution and creation, the role of science in social policy, and media sensationalism motivated by religious and political biases on all sides. When the truth is at stake, Charles discovers, some lies just have to be told.