The Summer Movie Season’s Unlikely Superheroes Are the ACLU Lawyers in 'The Fight'
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hollywoodreporter.comThanks to the pandemic, 2020 is a summer without a superhero movie. But a new documentary about the American Civil Liberties Union, The Fight, which Magnolia is releasing in theaters and on demand July 31, offers up a kind of alternative, a real-life Avengers starring a group of lovably nerdy civil rights attorneys.
Directed by Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman and Eli Despres, who made the 2016 political documentary Weiner, and produced by Kerry Washington,The Fight follows ACLU attorneys Brigitte Amiri, Joshua Block, Lee Gelernt, Dale Ho and Chase Strangioas they pursue high-stakes cases on reproductive, LGBT, immigrant and voting rights.
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