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Alleged (2010)
Directed by Tom Hines
Overview
Alleged is a romantic drama based on events occurring behind the scenes and outside the courtroom of the famous Scopes “Monkey Trial” of 1925. Charles Anderson, a talented young reporter, feels trapped working for his deceased father’s weekly newspaper and living in a tiny town (Dayton, TN) in steep decline. Seeing the “Monkey Trial” as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to break into the journalistic big leagues, Charles manages to insert himself into the middle of the “Trial of the Century.” Once in the midst of this staged event, however, he is torn between his love for the more principled Rose, his fiancée, and the escalating moral compromises that he is asked to make as the eager protégé of H.L. Mencken, America’s most colorful and influential columnist.
Rated PG | Length 91 minutes
Actors
Nathan West | Colm Meaney | Brian Dennehy | Fred Dalton Thompson | Ashley Johnson | JR Bourne | Khori Faison | Thomas D. Mahard | Geoffrey Beauchamp | Jamie Kolacki | Frank Zieger | Marty Bufalini | Jennifer Weil | John Lepard | John Sanders | Dan John Miller | Johnny Ginger | Linda Boston | Sam Urich | Tevis R. Marcum | Joe Amos | Lauren Mae Shafer | Ralph Lister | Gary T. Jones