“This fella tried to bully me out of business,” Jeremiah O’Keefe says. “I don’t think I should be expected to stand for it.” His wife reminds him, “You’ve never sued anybody before in your whole life.” That’s about to change.
Enter Willie E. Gary, a lawyer who “hasn’t lost a case in over 12 years.” Here is the first trailer for Amazon Studios’ The Burial, in which Jones stars alongside fellow Oscar winner Jamie Foxx.
Have a look above. When a handshake deal goes sour, funeral homeowner O’Keefe (Jones) enlists charismatic, smooth-talking attorney Gary (Foxx) to save his family business from a half-billion-dollar corporation whose brass are none too worried. “Who is this clown he’s hired as a lawyer?” one asks.
The businessmen counter with a hotshot attorney of their own — one Mame Downes (Jurnee Smollett), who graduated at the top of her Harvard Law School class and earned has a nickname: The Python. “I wouldn’t get too used to me being kind to you, Mr.
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