Film

The Problem of the Hero

"Not every friendship can survive the artistic process."

10.0

1h 25m

2023

“"Not every friendship can survive the artistic process."”

Synopsis

In 1940, author Richard Wright turns to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paul Green to help adapt his best-selling book, Native Son, into a Broadway play. Days from opening night, they differ over a single page of the script.

Director

Shaun Dozier

Trailer

Drama

chicago, illinoisbased on true storyracismwriterbroadway theatre1940snative sonchapel hill, north carolina

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Cast & Crew

J. Mardrice Henderson

as Richard Wright

David zum Brunnen

as Paul Green

Derrick Ivey

as Ray Collins

Brandon Haynes

as Canada Lee/Bigger Thomas

J. Antoine Hendrick

as Young Richard Wright

Dena Konkel

as Janet Green

Josephine Hall

as Nell Harrison

Charlie Cannon

as Orson Welles

Lex Wilson

as Walter Ash

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