AFI Opening Night Gala Presentation of Netflix's Mullbound

Opening Night Gala Presentation of MUDBOUND took place in Los Angeles on November 9, 2017.

Mudbound will be on Netflix and in select theaters on Friday, November 17. Set in the rural American South during World War II, Dee Rees's Mudbound  is an epic story of two families pitted against one another by a ruthless social hierarchy, yet bound together by the shared farmland of the Mississippi Delta. Mudbound follows  the McAllan family, newly transplanted from the quiet civility of Memphis and unprepared for the harsh demands of farming. Despite the grandiose dreams of Henry (Jason Clarke), the clan's leader, his wife Laura (Carey Mulligan) struggles to keep the faith  in her husband's losing venture. Meanwhile, Hap and Florence Jackson (Rob Morgan, Mary J. Blige) - fellow sharecroppers who have worked the land for generations - struggle bravely to build a small dream of their own despite the rigidly enforced social barriers  they face. The war upends both families' plans as their returning loved ones, Jamie McAllan (Garrett Hedlund) and Ronsel Jackson (Jason Mitchell), forge a fast  but uneasy friendship that challenges the brutal realities of the Jim Crow South in which they live.