Deadline (2012)

Actors: Eric Roberts, Steve Talley, David Dwyer, Anna Felix, J.D. Souther, Lauren Jenkins, Jeremy Childs, Ian Quinn, Tommy Cresswell, Jackie Welch, Jenny Helms, Holly Allen, Jessejames Locorriere, Jenny Littleton, Clay Brocker

Synopsis: Steve Talley and Academy Award nominee Eric Roberts star in Deadline, the story of the murder of an African American youth in rural Alabama that has gone uninvestigated, unsolved and unpunished for almost twenty years. But that changes when Nashville Times reporter Matt Harper meets an idealistic young blueblood bent on discovering the truth. Harper undertakes the investigation despite the opposition of his publisher, violent threats from mysterious forces, a break-up with his fiancée and his father's cancer diagnosis. Deadline is a story of murder, family, race, and of redemption — for a small Southern town and for Matt Harper. Inspired by a true story, Deadline is adapted from Mark Ethridge's novel Grievances. Ethridge is a former managing editor of The Charlotte Observer. Deadline will be released in theaters nationwide in 2012.