MOVIE · 2005

Manderlay

Drama139 min

In 1933, Grace arrives in Alabama with her father and discovers a plantation where people are still living under a system of slavery decades after emancipation. Bryce Dallas Howard is Grace, who decides not to drive on but to stay behind, open the gates, and help the community through its first harvest under new rules. Willem Dafoe appears as her father, uneasy about the detour, while Isaach de Bankolé and Danny Glover are among the residents bound to Manderlay’s brutal order. The story unfolds as a confrontation between Grace’s sense of duty and the plantation’s entrenched hierarchy.